390 Aurora Borealis — Dreadful Earthquake. 



that place, strong marks of the aurora, moving and flashing 

 about. He did not begin his observations until the luminous 

 arch was in its second or vertically E and W position, by the 

 needle ; but after that, his observations exactly corresponded 

 with ours, in tracing the arch from its vertical to its southwardly 

 inclined and more southern position, and until it finally vanished 

 in the east. 



The most curious and important part of the above observa- 

 tions, are perhaps those which relate to the visible approach of 

 the arch towards the north, and then returning back to its former 



position. 



[From another Correspondent.] 



To Mr. Tilloch. 

 Sir, — The reappearance of the aurora borealis in Britain after so 

 long an interval, being an object of curiosity to many of your me- 

 teorological readers, I submit the following short notice thereof, 

 for insertion at your pleasure. 



On Friday the 15th of October the northern lights were di- 

 stinctly seen from Barton mills, Suffolk, by several persons of my 

 acquaintance ; among others by Mr. B. M. Forster, of Wal- 

 thamstow, while travelling into Norfolk by night. 



On Sunday the 17th of the same month he observed this phae- 

 nomenon again, from Schole inn near Diss, about S P. M., and 

 describes it as exhibiting a very brilliant light of a pyramidal 

 figure. 



It appears that on the same evening the aurora borealis was 

 seen from Shoreditch and from Camberwell, and in other parts 

 of the neighbourhood of London. Another correspondent has 

 noticed the phsenomenon on the same evening at Carlisle. 



If anv correct observations in different parts of the country 

 should have been made on the aurora, the communication of them 

 in the Philosophical Magazine would probably amuse many of 

 your readers. As yet there have been but few observations on 

 this phaenomenon accurately recorded. The reader may refer to 

 Dalton's Meteorological Essays, to Davy's Elements of Chemistry, 

 and particularly to a curious work by Mairan, sur I'Aurore Bo- 

 reale, 4 to. Paris 1754, in which several new views of the possi- 

 ble cause of th'.s curious appearance are to be found, together 

 with an account of the observations made in France on the zo- 

 diacal light. I am Sir, yours, 



Nov. 10. 1819.* ■ T. Forster. 



DREADFUL EARTHQUAKE IN THE EAST INDIES. 

 [From the Bombay Gazette of July 7-] 



" Camp Bhooj, June 19. 

 *' At seven o'clock on the evening of the 1 6th of June, an earth- 

 quake destroyed the whole district and country of Kutch. Ac- 

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