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IN Colonel Godwin-Austen's interesting letter on the Barisal guns (page 247 ante), he mentions as suggested sources of these remarkable sounds fireworks (i.e., bombs, cannon), bursting bamboos in jungle-fires, thunder-claps, landslips, the falling of river-banks or sand-banks, and seismic disturbances; but he does not add what seems to me to be a more probable source of the sounds, namely, ball or globular lightning, known to the French as éclairs en boule.
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TOMLINSON, C. Barisal Guns and Similar Sounds. Nature 53, 295 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053295c0
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