Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 308
se iscaused by a burning gas-well. The light of thewellshines upon thesmallice-crystals which quiteoften are floating in theair, far above us, andis by them reflected, orthrown down again, sothat we see it, though thegas-well may be manymiles from us. Everywell furnishes but onecomet,—as we maycall… … shoot a tongue of flame,hissing and roaring,high in air. On a mistynight, when the light isbroken up and diffused,— the snow-covered hillssometimes adding theirreflection, — the wholesky is brilliantly illumi-nated, and the scene isgrand and beautiful. Now, let us take alook at another…
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