M. Poey on the Aurora of 1859. 403 
portions evolved, rolled, curled, and changed place and color, 
like the vapors climbing a mountain side. There was a ve 
light surface breeze from the N.N.E. but the tendency of the me- 
teor was toS.S.E. At half-past twelve, it embraced almost the 
entire northern hemisphere west, and at the height of from 45 
ning longitudinally from end to end. It presented every color of 
or candle, vibrat 
No sound was heard. 
At 1 o’clock A. M., the white light under and to the left of the 
polar star was as bright as twilight half an hour before sunrise 
of a fair morning and extended almost to the zenith. I cou 
see every object in the rooms—the hands of a clock and watch— 
out of doors the earth had a reddish glare, and every thing was 
as visible as at half moon, but more distinct as no shadows were 
ng and flickering as though disturbed by wind. 
ard 
during the two and a half hours I was up, similar to those of the 
great meteoric shower of November 13th, 1833, and such as may 
be seen any fair night between the 10th of August and Ist of 
December. 
We witnessed an Aurora the early part of October 1851, —e 
and brilliant for this latitude, but in no ways comparable to the 
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one of last night. The succeeding winter was long and unusually 
cold. : _ SENEX, SR. 
Jefferson Co., Miss., Sept. 2d, 1859. ae ii 
8. Description of two magnificent Aurore Boreales observed at Ha- 
vana, Cuba. “ln a letter from M. Awpreas Pory, Director = 
the Physio-Meteorological Observatory at Havana, Sept. 8th, 
to the Rditors.) os 
‘The a pearance of the Aurora Borealis in the twenty-third de- 
of none latitude is an event so rare that it naturally pro- 
pa fear in the common mind, and arrests the attention of men 
science. The records and traditions of Cuba show but few 
examples of the occurrence of this phenomenon. The /irst is 
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