{"collection":"fort","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/fort/damned/damn22.htm","path":"fort/damned/damn22.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/fort/damned/damn22.htm","text":"Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society,\n1-157:\nEXTRACT from the log of the barque Lady of the Lake, by Capt. F. W. Banner:\nCommunicated by R. H. Scott, F. R. S.:\nThat, upon the 22nd of March, 1870, at Lat. 5 47' N., Long. 27 52' W., the sailors of the Lady of the Lake saw a remarkable object, or \"cloud,\" in the sky. They reported to the captain.\nAccording to Capt. Banner, it was a cloud of circular form, with an included semicircle divided into four parts, the central dividing shaft beginning at the center of the circle and extending far outward, and the curving backward.\nGeometricity and complexity and stability of form: and the small likelihood of a cloud maintaining such diversity of features, to say nothing of appearance of organic form.\nThe thing traveled from a point at about 20 degrees above the horizon to a point about 80 degrees above. Then it settled down to the northeast, having appeared from the south, southeast.\nLight gray in color, or it was cloud-color.\n\"It was much lower than the other clouds.\"\nAnd this datum stands out:\nThat, whatever it may have been, it traveled against the wind.\n\"It came up obliquely against the wind, and finally settled down right in the wind's eye.\"\nFor half an hour this form was visible. When it did finally disappear that was not because it disintegrated like a cloud, but because it was lost to sight in the evening darkness. Capt. Banner draws the following diagram: {omitted}.","title":"The Book of the Damned Chapter XXII","type":"page"}