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ceding; but, altliouoh ;ilso liiniual, wia^ curioo;;, 

 tis oocurriiig in a liiji-h latiliidf (liiTinLi" tlio winter 

 season. Il was on tin; llJtli of Aiif^nst,* the 

 weather dark and gloomy, with light br^essea 

 from non^'iioi^-east^ ial$^tnAe W mtix^ii^i 

 and longitude 138" 3' cast, being' tlicn distant 

 alxmt tlirof Imiidrrd and sixtv-ciji'ht uiih's from 

 King s Island, (at the western entrance of Bass's 

 Straits), It was about eight o'clock, p.m. when 

 the iMp% perceived to be luminous, 



and scintillations of the same. Ji^t were also 

 aliundant around. As this was unusual and had 

 not been seen before, and it occasionally also 

 appeared in larger or smaller detached masses 

 giving A Wgfe trf bntBancy i to as- 



certain the cause, so tknusuai in high latitudes 

 durinu* the winter season, 1 threw tlie towinj^ 

 net (iverljuard, and in twenty niinntes succeeded 

 in capturing several pyrtmmu, gi\'ing out their 

 tisml pale green light ; and il mm W itoubt 

 detaeked gmnp& ^ iSm^ mvec^^ tb^t w6;e the 

 oceasio4 «if Hgbt in questio*i. The beautiful 

 liu-hr o-iven out Ivy these molhiscotts atiinials soon 

 subsiiled, (Ijeing seen emitted from every part of 



* Mj jiiurnal reniadis thu uttiiosphcre to have been very 

 diillj iluriiig tlic duv» but tnucli milder in tli@ evening; the 

 range of the thcrmom^tar during tlie day Wing from 4!!P 



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