204 AURORA BOREALIS. 
of the Northern regions, and of North Ame- 
rica more particularly, led the company, 
by a natural progress, to recollections of 
the sufferings of Captain (now Sir John) 
Franklin, Dr. Richardson, and others, on 
the overland expedition intended for meeting 
with Captain Parry at the mouth of the Cop- 
permine River, and thence to the accounts 
given by those gentlemen of the Aurora Bo- 
realis, as seen in those high latitudes, and 
where its corruscations are attended by 
sounds like that produced by a quick furling 
and unfurling of a silken flag. Mr. Dart- 
mouth cited some curious proofs, that con- 
fused accounts of these Polar phenomena 
had reached those southern nations whom we 
usually call the ancients; and referred, for 
new and important views of their’ natural 
history, to an account of the Aurora wit- 
nessed in London two years ago;* and Miss 
* See an account of the Aurora Borealis seen in 
London, on the evening of the 25th of September, 
1827, and of various appearances of the Aurora in 
the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, by E. A. 
Kenpatt, Esa. F.S.A. Quarterly Journal of Science 
and Art, January, 1828. 
