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‘From this elevation, just on the skirts of the clouds, we could overlook the country, west and south, for a hundred miles. There it was, the State of Maine, which we had seen on the map, but not much like that,—immeasurable forest for the sun to shine on, that eastern stuff we hear of in Massachusetts.’From The Maine Woods (1864), a book by Henry David Thoreau.Altocumulus lenticularis radiatus spotted over Thomaston, Maine, US by Harriet O’Neil (Cloud Appreciation Society Member 53,237).