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Mar 1872

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Nature, Volume 5, Issue 125, pp. 400 (1872).

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I SEE notices in the English papers of a great aurora seen in all parts of Scotland, England, and even as far south as Alexandria in Africa. It may be interesting for your readers to know that it was visible here on the same evening-Sunday, February 4. I saw it first at 6.30 P.M., and at various times after that until 10.30, after which I did not look out of doors. There were no streamers, and the peculiarity of the appearance was that it was in all directions, and less in the north than in the west and east. It presented the appearance of a dull red fog, in shifting masses, and more like the haze I observed here in 1861, when the earth was said to have passed through the tail of the comet of that year. Auroras are very rare in this latitude, but we have had four or five displays in fifteen months : one so bright as to excite the alarm of fire, and to call out the fire department.

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