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ON Sunday night, the 4th of February, we saw here the magnificent coloured Aurora Borealis, which has been described in NATURE, in the newspapers, and which, I see from telegrams, has been observed at very distant stations. Indications of the aurora were noticed here soon after sunset; but about 6.45 P.M. the whole eastern portion of the sky became illuminated with red light, at first faint, but rapidly becoming more and more intense, while yellow streamers began to shoot up from the north-eastern arc of the horizon nearly to the zenith. About the south-west there was also much red and yellow light; it was spread over a large apparent area, but was not so intensely bright or so strongly coloured as that which lay to the north-east. It too, however, possessed splendid broad, yellow streamers. The display lasted in full beauty till about 7.20, but long after that time much red and yellow light with occasional streamers was to be seen.
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BOTTOMLEY, J. The Recent Aurora, and A New Form of Declinometer . Nature 5, 326 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005326a0
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