240 Profefer Wirya mss Account of an 
peared, in fome places, green; in. others, Aue ; and in others, 
of an zndigo colour : the third cloud appeared -almoft whites: 
One of the gentlemen who obferved here, mentions a circum- 
ftance of. fomewhat el fingular. nature" While the darknefs 
continued (fays he) the clouds were in quick motion, interrupt- 
ed, fkirted one over another ; ; foz as. apparently, and I fuppofe, 
really, to form a confiderable number of. frata : the lower fraz 
tum of an uniform height as far as vifible soc that height con- 
SESS to be s ver y {mall from the fimall. extent of the xi&ihle hu 
sei in dé ftreet; E faw a ‘perfor’ with a lighted torch;-v 
occafioned a reflection of a faint red light, fimilar toa faint Au- 
rora Borealis, at a fmall height above my head. The height 
at which the refle&ion appeared to be made, was not more than 
. from twenty to thirty feet."—And it was generally remarked, 
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that the hills might be feen at a diftance in fome directions, 
whi the jntetmediate. pages were ded obfcured and dark- 
T us a thefe TOSS it feems as if the vapours, in fome 
places, were afcending ; in moft, defcending ; and in all, very 
near to the furface of the earth. To this we may add, that 
during the darknefs, objects appeared to caft a fhade in every 
direction : and that, in many places, there were feveral appear- 
ances or corrufcations i in the atmofphere, not unlike the Aurora 
| Borealis : but I do not find that there were any uncommon ap- 
x rances of the electric fire any where obferved that day,” 
Having 
found MO et [7] DW CASES found d d in feveral of the 
i fey towns, round the houfes ; and fome tow: into ) the houfes, as Thave been told 
by eye-witneffes,” Extra of a letter from Dover, in New-Hampfhire. - 
