soo ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
were so bright as to allow the 
reading of the smallest print: At 
the same time I observed a mass 
of clouds gathering in the north- 
west, the quarter to which the 
wind was blowing, and here the 
electrical appearances became pe- 
.culiarly vivid, flashes of light 
shifting rapidly among the broken 
intervals of the clouds, and near 
the horizon, assuming at times 
the appearance of a chain of light, 
which seemed to pass from a higher 
to a lower surface of cloud, and 
often continued to the eye for 
- two or three seconds, r 
