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428 ATMOSPHERICAL PHENOMENA. v--j 
o’clock in the evening. They were seen ^ 
land, as well as in the southern parts of t.w'Ji' 
•were mostly pointed, and of ditferenf 
the appearance of flaming spires or pyramids ; j[, 
■were trancated, and readied but half way; ^ 
had their points reaching up to the 
where they formed a sort of canopy, or •''* 
times red, sometimes brownish, sometimes jlt. , iS' 
fire, and sometimes emitting streams all arou 
canopy was manifestly formed by the matter 
by the streaming on all parts of the horizon 
seemed lo ascend with a force, as if impellj-* 
petus of some explosive agent below ; and 
V,A , to >'j 
ascent of the streaming matter gave a motion / 
and sometimes a gyration, like that of a whir ' ootr' jif 
was manifestly caused by tlie streams striking y 0 
of tlic canopy ; but if they struck the 
centre, all was then confusion. "•^"r'ors 
spires, or pyramids, were of a 
.ex' 
The vapoursj^^r, J 
Ul p^imXllVAJ, TTA^lW VA tv blood- 
gave those parts of the atmosphere t^e aW ^ 
blazing lances, and bloody-coloured pillars, ■‘.j- jo 
a strange commotion among the streams, as 
cloud or other body was moving behind ari 
them. In the northern and southern 
were perpendicular to the horizon j but in the ^ cf 
points they seemed to decline more or less '' .jijO. 
the other ; or rather to incline towards tlie nie^ 
veral persons declared that, in the time ot 
Napl 
the evening 
a light was observed 
the 'not'}^’ 
air was on fire, and flashing. Its 
increasing, about seven o’clock it spread to 
Its greatest heio-ht was about 6S decrees. ' (j\c 
that for 
Its greatest height was about 05 degrees 
were unequally jagged and scattered, 3''^^ 
course of the westerly wind ; so that tor ‘ 
spread considerably wider, yet without ^ 
zenith. About eight o’clock, a very regu 
parabolic figure, was seen to rise g^"tly. jj.cs 
of rectangular elevation, and to twenty il' 
■ontal amplitude. At ten the intensenes» 
