274 Aurora Borealis of November 14, 1837. 
tage. None, at any rate, of the magnificent exhibitions of this 
nature, by which the past few years have been distinguished, have 
produced upon his mind an impression of so unmingled admira- 
tion and delight. 
It is a fact not a little remarkable, and one which may serve 
to show how little the negative testimony of persons, not system- 
atically observers, can be depended on, in regard to the occur- 
rence even of the most magnificent and striking celestial phe- 
nomena, that of all the daily papers in the city of New York, 
amounting to nearly or quite twenty, the Commercial Adverti- 
seralone, contained a notice of the later and more splendid ap- 
pearances of this Aurora, while almost every one explicitly stated 
the fact of the flush which overspread the face of nature early in 
the evening. We quote a few sentences from the Commercial :— 
“The glories of the Aurora have been so often displayed to us 
of late, that we scarcely think of mentioning each nightly exhi- 
bition ; but that of last night was so eminently em that we 
cannot let it pass unnoticed. : 
“ Our news collector, Capt. Siscoe, who resides at Staten Island, 
says that he never beheld so magnificent a spectacle. During 
the continuance of the auroral light, he could see as distinctly 
outside of Sandy Hook, as at mid-day—a circumstance he never 
knew before, and he believes that the oldest men on the i 
are of the same opinion. The illumination was so great, he says; 
that, at one time, the city of New York appeared to be within a 
mile or two of Staten Island.” 
The display at nine o’clock was observed in the town of Fonda, 
Montgomery Co., N. Y.. by Mr. Oran W. Morris of New York 
City. His account of its general appearance accords very well 
with that which has just been given. At one time, however; 
Mr. Morris observed two arches of diffused light in the south, be- 
low that on which the columns rested. Mr. Morris noticed pat 
ticularly a bright red sector, similar to that already mentioned, on 
the west side of the corona. His position was at least one hut- 
dred and sixty miles, a little west of north, from that of the writer- 
By a letter addressed to Mr. Herrick by Mr. Azariah Smith, Jr-y 
from Geneva, N. Y., it appears that the first approach of 
Aurora was at that pao, unobscured sh clouds. The following 
is an ‘extract : ie 
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