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8 W. W. Mather on the Meteorology 
6. Northeast storm; wind very heavy all pies and all day. 
Low scudding clouds and some rain, af a little sn 
7. Wind n.e. 5; some rain and a little se all ay thick 
weather. Sailed from P Prince’s Bay to mouth of river near Fort 
William, in Thunder Bay. Clear and calm in the afternoon. 
Beautiful aurora borealis in the evening ; waving stripes of light. 
8. Sailed from Point William at 3) s.m., where it was calm, 
but at the Welcome Islands, heavy n.r. wind, storm struck us, 
and continued all day. Steamer. battled against the storm and 
pod head sea all day to reach the western inlet to Neepigon Bay. 
Wind blew from the north last night with great violence. | 
Benatifal aurora in the evening. Several ares visible, one above 
the other, and-.an apparent bank of clouds below the two lower 
ones, but stars visible. through it. -Arcs variable in height and 
progressive undulating movements of these ares, strongly marked 
like waves, thus = ~~~. Almost always i in the afternoon 
and. beginning of the evening, before the light. of the aurora bo- 
was observed in the north as. a segment of a circle with its 
highest point in the magnetic meridian. 
_ Long lines and stripes of light of various colors sprung up 
from the east, and extended entirely over the western horizon and 
from all points from east around by north to west, and some ex- 
tended even over to the southern thd ou: The crowns of ‘the 
successive arches were a few degrees east of north, but in the 4 | 
magnetic meridian. 
10. Wind blew a gale all day from the east. Water rose. so 
much as to carry away the trestle pier, and create a very strong 
the south from Neepigon Bay to Lake Superior.’ Wind 
south in the evening and blew a gale all night with rain. 
Strong current from the Lake into Neepigon Bay. 
11. Wind s.z., a gale with rain till 12th when the rain ceased 
but wind did not moderate very much. The air over the main . 
Lake seemed to be clear,.but when the masses of air from the 
Lake reached the mountains of St. Ignace and Fluor peg 
donee black threatening clouds were formed and rolled up an 
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little harbor on the v.w. side of Flour Island. Wind hauled to 
west at 10 p.m. and blew a heavy gale. ' 
12. Wind hauled to x.w. at daylight, blowing very violently, 
but gradually moderated. Some hail and sleet last night. Sailed 
for Sault St. Marie with strong but fair wind from n.w. Pleasant 
but windy day. 
13. Heavy squalls from ,west and n. w. in night. Arrived at 
Sault St. Marie. Weather very foggy from White Fish Point, 
which we passed at 9 am. Squalls from north and west: 
Steamer had to feel her way frequently with the soundi 
