126 Auroral Belt of Octohr 2Uh-mh, 1 870. 



Connecticut vallev, icebergs could not liave gathered up stones 

 in the bottom of the valley for transportation ; and, further, as 

 the era following the Glacial — the Chaniplain era — was an era 

 without question of submergence to a depth of at least oOO 

 feet along the St. Lawrence valley, there should Lave to 

 icebergs succeeding to the great St. Lawrence glacier and made 

 from it before its final melting ; and such icebergs may well 

 have been driven up the river, then a broad arm of the sea, 

 and thus have distributed southwestward the stones which had 

 been gathered below by the glacier in the Glacial era, besides 



in gathered below by the glacier in the 

 omplishing all else that can rightly be ai 



attributed t 



Art. XXIII —Auroral Belt of October 'lUh-2bih, 1870. 



There was seen at Xew Haven on Monday and Tuesday evi 

 ings, October •24th and 25th last, and at other distant plae 

 in the United States, a belt of deep rose or crimson color fr( 

 east to west across the southern sky, whicli possessed very i 

 common, if not altogether novel characteristics, — among wti 

 the following may be instanced. First, its breadth was extrei: 



times the ordinary breadth. S,ro/iJ, botli its c.lor and its eoni 

 tence were wholly mdike anythinu- seen at this phice before, so 



■eat masses irreuuhuly bounded an<l ilhiminated, and J 

 •eseml)lint,' the ordinary red streamers deepened and ditrt 

 » hue. This eoh>r prevai!e<l imifor.nlv without intennixtaje 

 ny other; but the component massJs wouhl progre^sivelj 

 dthout disappearing, and a'-'ain recover T)ri<j;htness. ^'^"" ■ 

 iss of arches has ever been'"ii(^ticed to form with suddenness , 

 cidity, and in motion southw! 

 h, after from twenty minutes t. . 

 disappear. - But in the present instance tlie bow' was permanent. 

 having, as here seen, the same situation, essentially, among the sta^ 

 throughout Monday evening and night, and the like on Tuesdaj 

 evemng so far as the prevalent mists of that evening would aiw 

 observation. In parts of New Jersey, and south of Plulaae)pn»| 

 it appears to have kept nearly one place for forty-eight boa- 

 Fourth, these arches hitherto have occupied the position ot ^^ 

 circles in the northern hemisphere ; but this occupied, here, a gr^'^ 

 circle, at least from ten o'clock on Monday night to one o'clock J^ 

 Tuesday morning, — and approximately, the same for t\ro uo^^ 

 earlier in the evening. This position lay centrally in the cm 



