284 Aurora Borealis of November 14, 1837. 
reason of the interference of clouds, it was not long visible. The 
variations noted, were as follows :— 
h. mm. h.. m. 
Baie RO OF 12:30 3° 238%: 37 
SH DA8B 25 2 < BTA (AS Se RE 2 
The mean variation for the month of November, had been 
determined to be 26° 48’ 45”. The writer continues :— 5 
“At half past twelve, a patch of the most intense blood red 
colors which I have ever seen, was visible, free from the interpo- 
sition of clouds. The whole of the sky had an awful appear- 
ance ; for the tinge of red which pervaded the whole expanse, as- 
sumed, in many points, from the depth of colors above, and the 
density of the clouds below, the dark copper tint, which is seen 
on the disk of the moon during a lunar eclipse.” 
The time here mentioned would correspond nearly to a quarter 
before eight in New Haven ; and the display which seems to have 
been observed at its height, must have been almost contempo- 
raneous with some of the earlier appearances noticed in this 
country. The time included between the earliest and latest ob- 
servations on the needle, is equivalent to that from half past six 
to eight, here. ; 
_ None of the scientific periodicals published on the continent of 
Europe, of a date sufficiently recent to contain notices of this 
Aurora, have yet reached us. Considering the intensity of the 
auroral action in England, as observed by Mr. Stanway, we call- 
not doubt that the phenomenon manifested itself over a great part, 
if not the whole, of the continent. 
General Remarks. 
“In considering the various accounts, not only of this, but of all 
great Auroras, we are not the least astonished at their vast extent. 
There can hardly be a doubt that often, at the same moment, the 
auroral action is going on in every longitude of our hemisphere; 
and possibly, at the same time, quite as extensively in the south- 
ern hemisphere also. ‘True, there is commonly believed to be 
some mysterious connection between this phenomenon and the 
absence of the sun, or, in other words, the night; but to what 
can this be owing, save to the fact, that, during the day, the light 
of the Aurora, like that of the stars, is necessarily swallowed up 
in the radiance of the sun? On one oecasion dur 
