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jected to examination ; a bottle full, a room full, or a house full, would con- 

 tain too small a quantity for such a purpose. I think means might easily be 

 devised for thus searching a much larger quantity of air than any yet at- 

 tempted, and I hope on some future occasion to shew how this may be done. 

 The disease disappeared rather suddenly on the 14th or 15th of February, 

 having continued just one month. 



" February 18th, at 6 p. m. — Barom. 28.960 ; clouds and rain. At 64 p. m. 

 — ^Very heavy rain indeed ; wind veering from S. W. to W. N. W. At 9 



p. m Barom. 29.045 ; brilliant, clear, moon-light night ; fresh breeze from 



the westward, and an extensive and varied Aurora ; a large, reddish-looking 

 arch extending from N. W. to N. E., with streamers up to the zenith ; the 

 effect greatly diminished by the bright moon : the Aurora did not continue 

 long. 10| p. m. — Went out about half an hour ago to see the occultation of 

 Mars by the moon, when my attention was arrested by a most brilliant, 

 broad, light-red, or almost carmine-coloured, arch, stretching across the hea- 

 vens. It was much broader and more deeply coloured at either extremity 

 than in the centre : to the eastward it passed between the tail of the Great 

 Bear and Arcturus. The middle of the arch, which was very faint, passed 

 through the two principal stars in Gemini, and the western extremity 

 crossed the two largest stars in the shoulders of Orion, viz., a and y. In a 

 little while the western extremity of the arch shifted over Aldebaran, and 

 ultimately over Capella, throwing out now and then very vivid streamers. 

 I never saw a luminous arch of such a peculiar colour — so beautiful and, not- 

 withstanding the clear moon-light, so brilliant ! Now and then several deli- 

 cate pencilings of the same hue appeared near the zenith. The eastern end 

 of this arch passed at length over Arcturus towards the south, while the west- 

 ern end moved towards the north, disappearing between Capella and Cassiopdia. 

 On the 19th, boisterous S. W. gale and heavy rain." — ^W. A. 



Malvern, March 20 ih, 1837- 



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