Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0242
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New South Wales
from the whole of that space arose a dark colourd thick mist which reachd to the bottom of the pipe when it was at its greatest distance from the water the pipe itself was perfectly transparent & much resembled a tube of glass or a Column of water if such a thing could be supposd to be suspended in the air it very frequently contracted & dilated lenghned & shortned itself & that by very quick motions it very seldom remaind in a perpendicular direction but Generaly inclind either one way or the other in a curve as a light body acted upon by wind is observd to do during the whole time that it lasted smaler ones seemd to attempt to form in its neighbourhood at last one did about as thick as a rope close by it & became longer than the old one which at that time was in its shortest state upon this they Joind together in an instant & gradualy contracting into the Cloud disapeard
20. The countrey this morn rose in gentle sloping hills which had the appearance of the highest fertility every hill seemd to be cloth'd with trees of no mean size at noon some a smoak was seen a little way inland & in the Evening several more