Miscellanies. 205 



" 1742. Fehruary 10. A considerable spot appeared near the sun's 

 eastern limb, which seemed to have entered since yesterday. 12d. 

 5h. I saw it with only the red glass. Through the telescope it ap- 

 pears -very black, surrounded with a nebula, but is only one spot. 

 14, 15. Snow and some rain, 



^^ April 11. A considerable aurora in the evening. 



" October 12. At night a considerable aurora. 



" 1744. [ ] 23. A small earthquake about Newbury at noon.* 



" 1745. August 4. A hurricane at Mansfield in Connecticut. 



" 1746. Fehruary 2. A small earthquake between 9 and 10, P. M. 

 I perceived it not. 



" The aurora borealis on the 1st of March, 1746, was the greatest 

 I have seen since the 5th of March, 1741. The evening was very 

 fair and calm till about 9 o'clock, when a fresh gale sprang up at 

 northwest by north, and then the meteor first began to appear in the 

 north. I had no notice of it till 11 o'clock, at which time I acciden- 

 tally discovered it. There was then the appearance of a black cloud 

 in the north, about 5° high in the middle, and extending from about 

 north northwest to near east by north. The fixed stars appeared very 

 plainly through it. Immediately above it was a lucid arc considera- 

 bly broader, very bright, but colorless, from which issued striae tinged 

 with a pretty vivid red, chiefly from its two extremities ; and those 

 from the western end, arose above the pole. The scene continued 

 with short intermissions till midnight, and then the streaming ended, 

 the meteor after this resembling a very str'g [ ]. About one 



in the morning I left it, finding no alteration in it nor any likelihood 

 of new phenomena. The rest of the heavens appeared hazy, and the 

 wind blew very fresh the whole time. The barometer was very 

 low the whole month of February, and the last ten days was very 

 cold, dry, blustering weather. The moon came to her last quarter 

 the following night, which I should not have mentioned had not the 

 judicious Dr. Halley, &c. It may not be amiss to subjoin a journal 

 of the most remarkable auroras for seven years last past. That on 

 the 22d of October, 1730, Phil. Trans., on the very night of the last 

 quarter. Sept. 12, 1739, a very remarkable one, the striae very red, 

 exceeding the last, the night before the last quarter. Jan. 10, 1741, 

 a considerable aurora, two days before first quarter; weather very 

 severe. March 5, 1741, an extraordinary one, night before new moon. 

 26, a considerable one, two days before last quarter. Sept. 27, extra- 

 ordinary, see almanack, night before new moon. April 11, 1742, 

 considerable, three days before full moon. 



* The month does not appear. 



