386 Prof. Loomis on the Aurora of 1859. 
Ind.; at Springhill, Ala.; at Jefferson Co., Miss.; at Havana, 
Cuba; and at San Francisco, California. All but one of these 
having been communicated to this Journal directly from their 
authors. 
1. Observations made at Lewiston, Maine, lat. 44° 5’ N., long. 
70° 15’ W.; by Prof. Er1as Loomis. 
Sunday, the 28th of August, I passed at Lewiston, in the state 
of Maine. The day was throughout unusually cold and fm 
windy. In the evening, the wind was less violent, but still fres 
from the northwest, and so continued until midnight. At 10 
P. M, the thermometer stood at 58° F. and the next morning at 
5 o'clock it stood at 50° F. 
At 8 20™ in the evening I first noticed some remarkable au- 
roral indications. Long brushes of pale white light were shoot- 
ing up from the west and also from the east, and were directed 
towards a point considerably south of the zenith; while in the 
northwest was a large mass of light tinged with a decided 
rosy hue. 
At 8 35m p.m. the light in the east and northeast had also 
At 81 45m p.M. in nearly every part of the heavens the light 
had become more intense, and the streamers were continually 
egrees. : 
At 9 P.M. the light had broken through nearly the entire 
dark bank in the north, so that there remained only a portion of 
this bank of very irregular shape, and its average height did 
named, but occas little to the north of that central pot. 
_ At 95 5™ the illumination of the southern half of the heavens 
was much greater than that of the northern; but at 9* 10™ the 
illumination of the southern half had sensibly declined and 
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