150 Auroras and Sunset. 
50m. past 8. Bright pencils streaming up from a little north 
of east. Reddish or crimson hues barely perceptible. 
53m. past 8. Clouds rising higher in the south. 
55m. past 8. Crimson hues hardly to be discerned in the east 
and west. Flashes less rapid. 
57m. past 8. Gathering again of crimson in the east. The 
rising clouds from the southern horizon are gorgeously lit up with 
the rays darting from behind them. 
58m. past 8. Lake in the east is more like a sheet of flame 
than any thing else with which it may be compared. 
2m. past 9. Lake in the east, as at the rising of a summer's 
sun. Supremely beautiful! 
Below the clouds that have been climbing up from the south, 
lies a dark stratum of lilac. 
Am. past 9. The bright sheet of lake in the east has ascended. 
7m. past 9. A very bright ragged cloud constitutes the focus. 
10m. past 9. Crimson almost gone. 
15m. past 9. Crimson spread ail over the north. 
20m. past 9. "The western sky decked with superbly brilliant 
Below a stripe of dark sky or cloud in the north, the pen- 
cils change so frequently and rapidly that the view is more likea 
glance at a fairy festival than at the mere sky. 
25m. past 9. <A broad stripe of very intensely brilliant lake, 
inclined at an angle of about 60° with the horizon, rising in the 
west and extending two-thirds of the way to the zenith. 
30m. past 9. Growing dim. 
35m. past 9. Lake most bright in the southeast. Light stripe — . 
apatite upon a dark one about 3° in bread 
40m. past 9. Fast growing dim. 
45m. past 9. Flashings as of flame, more distinct than Biel! 
The white stripe of the south moved around to the west, accom- 
panied above by the lake. Focus alternately existing and gone. 
50m. past 9. Flashes more vivid and long. Crimson spreaiy ; 
ing around to the south. 
5m. to 10. Lake again south and west, but most brilliant far, 
in the north. Lake in the south a stripe of 10° width, dim to- 
ward the margins. 
10 o’clock. Crimson all gone. 
- 5m. past 10. Flashing every where lingered arse near 
the focus. Fogscoming on fromthe streams. 
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