140 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
The Aurora Borealis was observed on four nights only, viz: Jan. 
19th, Feb. 19th, April 22d, and May 9th; that on the 19th of January 
was the only one that exhibited any perceptible motion, the others 
were a steady light; that on the 9th of May was a faint light, only a 
few degrees above the horizon. A solar halo was noticed once, and 
lunar haloes on fourteen nights. Both solar and lunar haloes were 
followed by rain or snow within a short period of time. 
A shock of an earthquake was felt on the 27th of October, at 11.30 
wind, the atmosphere hazy and smoky. The loose boards on the 
glasses and other pendant articles swung fro e to side, horses that 
were trotting or walking in the road involuntarily stopped, and the do- 
estic animals seemed stupefied and i instances frightened. 
by a sound resembling the reverberations of cannon among the moun- 
tains, dying away in the distance. Many people throughout the coun- 
try were much alarmed, and ran out of their houses. 
At 8 o’clock vp. m. of the same day there was a very bright meteor ; 
its course was from N. W. to S. E., leaving a track of bright light, 8 
or 10° in length, which continued several seconds; it was at some dis- 
the relative positions of every point, in depth as well as in length and 
breadth, can be directly determined. 
The stereoscope affords a convincing proof that the two projections 
of an object presented to the two eyes, suggest the real object far more 
effectively to the mind than a single projection to one s; and 
ho have paid much attention to the appearance of binocular 
Fully imp m the re 
above stated, that a binocular microscope would possess great advanta- 
ges over the present monocular instrument, I, shortly after the publica- 
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