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I HAVE read with great interest Prof. Tait's lecture on Thunderstorms, and have had recalled to mind a singular fire-ball which I had the fortune to see some years ago during a thunderstorm in Portugal. I have a perfect recollection of the phenomenon without referring to my journal of that date.
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FORBES, H. Fire-Balls. Nature 24, 101 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024101g0
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