The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)
Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 394
cending from a higher station in the atmosphere,subsiding into strata of a more regularly horizontaldirection, and hence it is called cirrostratus. As itis generally changing its figure, and slowly subsid-ing, it has received the name of wane-cloud. Itoriginates more frequently from the curl-cloud… … rates by degrees, or, by inosculating with someother modification, produces the twain-cloud, andeventually the rain-cloud. Sometimes this cloud is disposed in wavy bars orstreaks, in close horizontal opposition; and thesebars vary infinitely in size and color, generallyblended in the middle, but…
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