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The Enterprise
Wellington, Lorain County, Ohio
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Report on mysterious 'perfumed mists' appearing on the French coast, especially the channel, in spring mornings with northeast winds, smelling like lime kilns. Origin unknown, possibly dust and gases carried by wind, per Paris Petite Revue.
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On certain parts of the coast of France, including the channel, mists occasionally appear which are generally called "perfumed mists." They come in the morning, especially during the spring, and, strangely enough, only when the wind is in the northeast.
Sometimes they only last for a few minutes, at others they hang about all day. They have a characteristic smell, similar to that of a lime kiln. The origin of these mists is a mystery, says the Paris Petite Revue. In one district the inhabitants thought the smell came from some lime kilns some miles to the northeast and they may have been right; but that was not an explanation of the phenomenon, because the smell from those lime kilns could not have been carried by a northeast wind to all the other places where the mists were seen and the smell noticed.
In one of those places the northeast wind comes from the sea, in another it comes from overland; the smell does not therefore necessarily come from the ground.
The best explanation given is that the blustering northeast and east winds sweep up the dust, gases and germs of the ground over which they pass and drive them toward the sea.
When this wind has continued for some time it contains such a quantity of these things as to affect all our organs. That is the cause of the complaints which appear when the east wind blows, and it may be the cause of those "perfumed mists."
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On certain parts of the coast of France, including the channel, mists occasionally appear which are generally called "perfumed mists." They come in the morning, especially during the spring, and only when the wind is in the northeast. Sometimes they only last for a few minutes, at others they hang about all day. They have a characteristic smell, similar to that of a lime kiln. The origin of these mists is a mystery, says the Paris Petite Revue. In one district the inhabitants thought the smell came from some lime kilns some miles to the northeast and they may have been right; but that was not an explanation of the phenomenon, because the smell from those lime kilns could not have been carried by a northeast wind to all the other places where the mists were seen and the smell noticed. In one of those places the northeast wind comes from the sea, in another it comes from overland; the smell does not therefore necessarily come from the ground. The best explanation given is that the blustering northeast and east winds sweep up the dust, gases and germs of the ground over which they pass and drive them toward the sea. When this wind has continued for some time it contains such a quantity of these things as to affect all our organs. That is the cause of the complaints which appear when the east wind blows, and it may be the cause of those "perfumed mists."