Sep 1885
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Nature, Volume 32, Issue 828, pp. 437 (1885).
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IN July of this year I spent a short time in the Schwarzwald of Baden. For more than a week the sky was cloudless day and night, yet the heat was not oppressive. The sunsets were beautiful beyond description, and the after-glows magnificent. One evening in particular will always remain impressed upon my memory. It was that of July 26, and the place was a few miles from the town of Neustadt, nearly in the centre of the forest. Wonderful effects began to appear so soon as the sun touched the crest of the western hills. But these were as nothing compared with what followed. The moment the luminary had disappeared behind the hills long streamers began to radiate high up into the heavens, and for a time, as the daylight diminished, they increased both in length and intensity, rivalling any description or figures of the Arcric auroras that I have ever seen; at the same time the most vivid and ever-changing glow lit up the whole western heavens. The scene lasted more than an hour, and its effect was heightened by, and perhaps partly clue to, a nearly full moon, which rose from behind a slight dip or pass in the hills on the eastern side of the valley. The inhabitants of the Schwarzwald are indubitably phlegmatic, and not easily moved to excitement; but this display of celestial pyrotechnics was too much for them, and at a small roadside inn the carters and others who were enjoying their beer inside turned out en masse to witness it. I am not a strong admirer of Turner's pictures, but, in comparing nature with art, one idea came uppermost-the scene was ``Turneresque.''
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