Prof, Farrar^s account of an electrical jfthenomeiion. 



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aianding timber, where these appearances were not to he seen, ex- 

 cept on the tops of some high apple trees on the other side of the 

 road. The falling of the snow^ and the height prevented our as- 

 certai-qing whether there were lights on the tops of the forest 



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trees. We did not leave tlie standing timber, until we had come 

 down on low ground, where we saw no lights until we got home. 

 About twelve o'clock, we returned to the place wliere wc first 

 saw the lights. The snow was yet falling very fast, and there 

 appeared to be still more of the before-meulioued lights ; but we 

 saw no blazes. 



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"Where these lights were seen, was a tongue of elevated land, 

 extending from the north, down between two quite small branch, 

 es of Williams' river. The whole length of way we travelled 



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that evening was about a mile. Where we first saw the 



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lights, 



-was very near the top of this ridge of land, descending steeply to 

 the east, for about a hundred rods to a small stream, not sufficient 

 to turn a mill, and to the west, vi^ith a more gradual descent, for a 

 mile to another stream a little larger. There are no very consid- 

 erable streams in this vicinity. 



'^The wind was not strong, but a light breeze blowing from 



the northeast, and the we 



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season of the year. The 



cold as usual for 



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when we first ob 



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served them, which was a little past ten o'clock, were very 

 quent, four or five in a minute ; but the claps of thunder were seU 

 dom, and these appeared to be at a distance, and not heavy. But 

 the flashes of li^htnins; soon became less frequent, more vivid and 



attended with thunder. About twelve o'clock, there 



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r of very sharp flashes of lightning, attended with 



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