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APPENDIX. 



Hours. 



Gosport 



Time. 



GOSPORT. 



WOOLWICH, 



Hours. Min, 



7 55 



9 



9 30 



9 45 



10 25 



10 45 



11 



large perpendicular columns 

 and short pointed corrusca- 

 tions, rising from the aurora ir 

 nearly parallel rows, all passec 

 through red, orange, lake, crim- 

 son, green, and purple tints. 



Another rainbow-like arch 

 stretched across the heavens 

 from the eastern point of th 

 horizon, and passed off to the 

 south. 



The aurora gradually dimin- 

 shed, and a large tenebrous 

 space in and near the horizon 

 on each side of magnetic north 

 appeared. 



Aurora rose again, and wide 

 columns rose from every part of 

 its arch, and passed through the 

 same colors as before. 



As before. 



light, 14, keeping the same 

 distance apart. 



As before. 



As before. 



As before. 



As before. 



As before. 



Grand display of 12 or 14 



olumns glowing from the au- 



ora, some passing the zenith. 



and a perfectly red rainbow-like 



arch appeared 10 above the 



aurora. 



Another bow, 31-2 wide, 

 rose from the aurora, and soon 

 reached the zenith and gradu- 

 ally disappeared. 



Increased in splendor ; shot 

 up streamers from external 

 bow nearly to zenith. 



A faint stream of light kin- 

 dled in the eastern extremity 

 of external bow, and in a mo- 

 nent described an arch of 

 100 through the tail of U.M, 



Similar streamers from the 

 western end of exterior arch. 



Streak of bright light, like a 

 yellowish cloud, stretched hor- 

 zontally towards the east, a 

 noment after a streamer kin- 

 dled at its eastern extremity, 

 nd shot -gradually upwards 

 jast the meridian, undulatory 

 trearners began to play in ev- 

 ery part of the north, reaching 

 learly to the zenith, dense cen- 

 ral darkness disappeared, and 

 >right light reached horizon 

 or first time. 



Dark spot again appeared, 

 with bright streamers from its 

 upper side. 



