Looming Mirages

Ia what are called "looming mirages" distant objects show an apparent extravagant inerease in height without alteration in breadth. Distant pinnacles of ice are thus magnified into immense towers or tall, jagged mountains, and a ship thus reflected from f ar out at sea inay appear to be 12 or 15 times as tall as it is long. Rocks and trees arealsoshown in abnormal sbapes and positione, while houses, animal and human beiiigs appear in like exaggerated shapes. Before the sandy plains of our southwestern states and territoriea were converted into verdant fields by the ingenuity and tireless energy of man mirages were very common in those regions, the Indiana regarding the phenoineDon as being the work of evil