Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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they do so sometimes tho[ugh] rare seldom. They are a very pretty fish about the size of a herring. Well at night again [vacat] “the blue 5 electric light play'd round the (not the shrouds, but the) Horizon.”108 It was sheet lightning and not so vivid as the it was the other night. In the West Indies it is a very common thing 10 for the lightning to “play round the shrouds.” It is commonly called ribbon lightning, from the long ribbony appearance it has. Sheet lightning is not near so dangerous as dart 15 lightning{,} it is the latter that con- tains the thunderbolts so destruc- tive both to ships{,} lives [and] homes. Lightning is more common in New York than in Glasgow, but it 20 is sheet lightning. Dart lightning is very common in the West Indies and also very destructive. It has blown almost a gale today. [End of Page 68]
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