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o’clock, were covered (more especially northward) with fleecy 
clouds, shining with a mild lustre; from the westward, and 
reaching to the zenith, was a broad stream of light in con- 
stant motion. A white bow, the most beautiful I ever beheld, 
nearly the breadth of the moon, tapering at the eastern ex- 
tremity, and in appearance like the galaxy, reached quite 
across the heavens from east to west through the zenith, 
evidently crossing the magnetic meridian, the stars which 
shone through it were surrounded with a halo. I could com- 
pare it only to an immense white rainbow.” 
“ Wells, Norfolk.” 
In the 36th, 41st, 46th, 71st, 80th, and other volumes of 
the Philosophical Transactions, are recorded observations 
and accounts of auroral arches which had been seen at dif- 
ferent places and at various times, both in this country and 
on the continent. 
In the 80th volume there is an account by Mr. Hey of 
Leeds, of several luminous arches which he observed :—one 
he saw at Buxton in March 1774, about 8 o’clock p. m.; its 
appearance and position were very similar to that seen the 
3rd of November 1834. 
In October 1775 he saw a similar arch at Leeds, but it 
disappeared in five or six minutes after he first noticed it. 
Between eight and nine o’clock p.m., March 21, 1783, he 
observed a luminous arch, which was visible for ten or twelve 
minutes; and after it disappeared, another arch, more beautiful, 
made its appearance and continued visible for half an hour. 
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