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corresponding to those used by Professor Olmsted, and already 
quoted. Professor Smith adds: “ About nine o’clock there was a 
corona formed a little south of the zenith, highly colored, as on 
the 17th November, 1835. Streams of auroral light were also 
faintly visible at the same time in the north.” It is very obvi- 
ous that the magnificence of the exhibition at nine was by no 
means so great in Middletown as in New Yor 
Professor O. P. Hubbard, of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. 
H., in a letter to Professor Silliman, also mentions t ce 
of the Aurora at that place; but without giving a contin de- 
scription. 
East of New Haven, the snow storm seems to have been more 
protracted than in this city. The rosy flush observed here at six 
o’clock, was nevertheless seen in New London, im this state, 
though the snow was falling copiously at the time. A letter to 
Professor Olmsted, from Mr. J. Hurlbut, of the latter place, dated 
Nov. 14, says: “ The snow has fallen incessantly since five o’clock 
this morning, and up to this hour (eight o’clock, P. M.) the storm 
has not in the Jeast abated. But, at about six o’clock, it seemed 
as if the heavens were on fire. A lurid light on all sides, from 
the zenith to the horizon, cast a most vulcanean hue on the fallen 
snow. This lasted about half an hour, and then disappeared. 
The light seemed the same in every portion of the heavens, but 
without any apparent cause.” 
South of us, the distance to which this beautiful exhibition was 
visible, at one time or another, during the course of the evening, 
was very unusual. From a large number of notices we select a 
few of the more circumstantial, and present them in the geo- 
graphical order of the places from which they come, proceeding 
southward. The United States Gazette, published at Philadel- 
phia, after noticing the early appearance of the heavens, which 
Was not dissimilar to that observed at New York, continues: 
“ Ata later period, the lights were again visible, and between 
nine and ten o’clock, exceeded in extent and brilliancy, any thing 
of the kind ever before witnessed in this latitude. A broad field 
of crimson flame, stretching from nearly a western course, and 
reaching the eastern hemisphere, encompassed the heavens with 
a brilliant glory, of indescribable beauty and magnificence, hang- 
ing, as it were, suspended from the blue vault above, like an im- 
mense curtain over the earth—while, from almost every point of 
