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of cloud across the whole heaven, of fine pearly flakes the early stars could even priek through, that grew more and more exquisite in color, and seemed held together by a pure violet light like a veil. In the genith the clear sky was very blue and beneith the cloud, violet, till it graduated, I do not know how, into pale greenish yellow in which were floating strong dashes of entirely different clouds, like gold, that became orange and even red as the light dropped at length and the colors neat the horizon grew rich and dark. This weather at the turn of the season when you get the