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within a circle around of a few degrees in diameter; and again it 
would be a mere blank, all the pencils melting away before uniting. 
Four meteors were seen to fall during the observations ; one to 
the southwest, and the other three toward the sout 
Observations.—Notes of the changes were at first taken once 
in from one to four minutes, and even these were not frequent 
| enough to record all the changes; and oftentimes-as many occur~ 
| red during the time employed in writing a single remark as were 
| witnessed in the intervals of employment with the pencil. 
At 20 minutes past 8 o’clock the whole vault of the heavens 
_Was overspread with a series of alternating pencils of bluish white 
light, with the blue sky beyond, which converged to a point less - 
than five degrees directly south from the zenith, a brilliant lake 
bar extending from the eastern to near the western horizon, about 
in the pathway of the sun. 
| 23m. past 8. Red light in masses east and west of the zenith, 
the bar not continuous. 
25m. past 8. Lake bar replaced and more brilliant thew: at 
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first. Bright white ragged cloud in the centre. 
27m, past 8. The lake or red in bright portions near the east- 
ern and western extremes of the bar. Pencils in the south change 
from white to lilac and from lilac to white with great rapidity 
} 31m. past 8. Grown dim and again brightened up. Pencils 
-.* most bright in 8. E. and S. W. 
34m. past 8. Intensely white pencils shoot up from the N. W. 
and N. E., most bright at the base. 
-% 4 Bocus Genichad and the crimson hues mildly shed all around. 
Lg eae. Y 35m. past 8. Focus re-established, with a bluish white 
Mi “és Seer rs all about. The red pale, but most dist in 
n. past 8. Red in the west, but brightest in the northwest. 
"beus Sicstoly vanishing and reba =: ack and > 3 
about the zenith. | 
'. Alm. past 8. Crescent in the eas and two cial oe 
belts or crescents more nearly, of white in the southern. heavens. 
: 3 43m. past 8. Dim and thin ROY: clouds rising in the south, 
_ ‘tipped with the Aurora. 
One bar of white light across the southern sky. 
47m. past 8. Crescent inverted. Light growing more_ bril- 
liant in the Rorth and waning in the south. 
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