Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 17 1131-17-p076

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lel f *2k Ineloouc Aircarwn Feb. 4, 1913 4% } H. Pickering 103 the stony ones, and so did not becom Ontario. Neither did it throw off slivers to form a tail until much whiter and hotter. This was the case in Bermuda. Owing to its greater mass in proportion to its surface, it suffered less relative resistance from the air, and so while starting near the end of the pro- cession, it at length took its positjon at the head, where it got white hot, and became so heated through and through, that it...