TCD MS10516 folio 82 verso
[12th October 1916] hot sands, that carries the dust to such extremes heights. For as the setting sun sinks below its bank of dust, the surface of the desert rapidly cools, the rising convection currents are replaced by a placid atmosphere, and the suspended dust gently subsides. Yet all this time the wind may still be racing over the desert but the dust will continue to settle in spite of its onward force. And the subsidence of the dust is sometimes so rapid that, even as the sun sinks, the atmosphere is again clear, and the moon and stars shine out over the earth through an unpolluted firmament.
The hot aerial currents, that rise by day from the wilderness and bewilder* the mind with strange illusions, might ascend to great heights, for the sand that they car-
*confuse