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I BEG to assure Mr. Rouse that about fifteen years ago, early in the evening, in this very quiet locality, I listened, along with my father, to the sound of an aurora, pulsing above us, across the zenith, and appearing nearer to us, or lower, than most auroras I had seen. The sound was somewhat like the rustling or switching of silk, and we listened to it for some time with great curiosity. The aurora was not coloured, as more imposing ones have sometimes appeared, but white. It recalled to me the lines of Burns in a fragment entitled “A Vision.”
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SHAW, J. Sound of the Aurora. Nature 23, 484 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023484d0
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