150 Auroras and Sunset. 



50m. past 8. Bright pencils streaming up from a little north 

 of east. Reddish or crimson hues barely perceptible. 



53m. past 8. Clouds rising higher in the south. 



55m. past 8. Crimson hues hardly to be discerned in the east 

 and west. Flashes less rapid. 



5Tm. past 8. Gathering again of crimson in the east. The 

 rising clouds from the southern horizon are gorgeously lit up with 

 the rays darting from behind them. 



58m. past 8. Lake in the east is more like a sheet of flame 

 than any thing else with which it may be compared. 



3m. past 9. Lake in the east, as at the rising of a summer's 

 sun. Supremely beautiful ! 



Below the clouds that have been climbing up from the south, 

 lies a dark stratum of lilac. 



4m. past 9. The bright sheet of lake in the east has ascended. 



7m. past 9. A very bright ragged cloud constitutes the focus. 



10m. past 9. Crimson almost gone. 



15m. past 9. Crimson spread all over the north. 



20m. past 9. The western sky decked with superbly brilliant 

 red. Below a stripe of dark sky or cloud in the north, the pen- 

 cils change so frequently and rapidly that the view is more like a 

 glance at a fairy festival than at the mere sky. 



25m. past 9. A broad stripe of very intensely brilliant lake, 

 inclined at an angle of about 60° with the horizon, rising in the 

 west and extending two-thirds of the way to the zenith. 



30m. past 9. Growing dim. 



35m. past 9. Lake most bright in the southeast. Light stripe 

 resting upon a dark one about 3° in breadth. 



40m. past 9. Fast growing dim. 



45m. past 9. Flashings as of flame, more distinct than before. 

 The white stripe of the south moved around to the west, accom- 

 panied above by the lake. Focus alternately existing and gone. 



50m. past 9. Flashes more vivid and long. Crimson spread- 

 ing around to the south. 



5m. to 10. Lake again south and west, but most brilliant far, 

 in the north. Lake in the south a stripe of 10° width, dim to- 

 ward the margins. 



10 o'clock. Crimson all gone. 



5m. past 10. Flashing every where disappeared, except near 

 the focus. Fogs coming on from the streams. 



