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below created a solid and continuous field withithe individual cloud

tops so compactly arranged as to give one the impression of the irregular
flat ice fields ef the antarctic. Several isolated cumulus protruded
their smooth knoll skeped heads above the general level of the Pield of
ice and snow adding to that frigid landscape, the monadnack. This field
of snow was occaisionally broken by a perfectly formed bay with channels
extending beyond its limits. Its shoreline was lined with the perpendicular
ice barriers as in the antarctic zones, The similarity was difficult to
accept. This field continued to the horizon and was sharply outlined
against the light sky of the east. It was the first time that the horizon
was discernable but now it was as sharp in contrast as black and white
and without mist or interference of any kind. A quality one would expect
to find beyond the limits of our atmosphere in the interstellar space.
The sky line became a light yellow in the east and grading thru to gray
and finally the blue directly above. Rotating the eyes to the westward
and along the herizontal plane, one encounters a very striking condition.
The yellow of the eastern sky continues west along the horizon to the
north for about 45 degrees at which point begins a gradual ascent into
the sky with a new color gradation of reddish pupple coming into play
The new color continues westward as was the planoof the yellow zone and
is finally replaced by a complete void of blue. Thus the normal

position of the apparent horizon is elevated as the eye moves from east
to west.

Both the plane and the sun rays approach the gar clouds observed
early this morning but now this streak has developed into a broad expanse
of an umbrella passing by not as a solid blanket but as a series of
successional masses, extending to the horizon in the east but still
separated distinctly from the northern horizon with that clear yellow
sky. All of a sudden the day breaks with a brilliant splendor of red
lining the undersurface of the strata of clouds directly above. After

running the full gradation of red it changes into all the intensity of