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I HAVE just read in NATURE (vol. xix. p. 182) an account of a strange electrical phenomenon observed at Teignmouth. In connection with it the following incident may be of some interest:—When in Switzerland, not long since, I made with some friends the ascent of Monte Rosa. The weather was un ettled, and on gaining the summit we saw a thunderstorm advancing in our direction from the Italian valleys, and not wishing to turn ourselves into lightning-conductors we deemed it wise to retire from the summit. We had retreated a very short distance along the arète when the storm-clouds swept up upon us; the fine snow fell so thick that we could hardly see one another, and we were all suddenly attracted by a peculiar ticking or fizzing from our hair; when I held up my axe the ticking was most distinctly heard from the top of it. The thunder ceased, and we felt that we wrere acting as points, through which the ground electricity was flowing off into the cloud; if it had been dark, the bluish light observed at Teignmouth might have been visible.
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GREEN, W. Electrical Phenomenon. Nature 19, 220 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019220b0
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