fat a morgan a

[Ital. fat a a fairy, and Morgan a, a local name for a fairy=fairy Morgan a.] A remarkable aerial phenomenon observed from the harbor of Me ina and adjacent places, and supposed by the Sicilians to be the work of the fairy Morgan a. Objects are reflected sometimes on the surface of the sea, and sometimes in a kind of aerial screen to thirty feet above it. Father Angelluci thus describes it: "As I stood at my window, I was surprised with a most wonderful, delectable vision. The sea that washes the Sicilian shore swelled up, and became, for ten miles in length, like a chain of dark mountains, while the waters near our Cal a brian coast grew quite smooth, and in an instant appeared as one clear, polished mirror, reclining against the aforesaid ridge. On this gla was depicted, in chiaro-oscuro, a string of several you sands of pilasters, all equal in altitude, distance, and degree of light and shade. In a moment these lost half their height, and bent into arcades, like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed on the top, and above it arose castles innumerable, all perfectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost in colonnades, then windows, and at last ended in pines, cypre es, and other trees, even and similar." "Hope still guided them on, as the magic Fata Morgan a ." Long fellow: Evangeline, ii. 4. fătch, s . [FETCH.] Bot.: Vicia sativa . Meadow fatch: Onobrychis sativa. ( Pratt ; Britten & Holland .)