New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-19
THE AURORA BOREALIS.
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SIR: The Aurora BOrrals showed az complete an
arch asst night at II o'clock. as rainbow. and of the
vdrh apparently of three four rainbows end
expanding into somewhat Of broom fan form. and
sperDg almost to point at the other One end seemed
20 rest the western hOriZonsvept through the ze-
NTH ard within few degrees of the eastern hor
lion 1t was ike snow white arch Of cloud, brilliantly
light and vet the stars visible through II with unc
uinsbed luster There no changes or unfusiions
in il until gradually faded away At the same tine there
soft bright light from h. rthern horizon Ike the
dawn Of day The weather ater extreme heat had be
com. cool Ike the DAYS Of the latter part OF October
The above unusual and beautiful eZhNiilen oi the Au
rsra Boreas a. at Newburg Tuesday evening 9Th
inst -as to my memory explanation OF the pnsno u
ena publi,hed few months since in Tn National ifHt
c,EGr Isend copy FIR republication in Your psPer, as
tm-y interest some Of the investigators OF
July 70, 1873. hLtLoA'Lo'i'
From the Nsr.ra In,eliseneer OF February, 49,
A vast number of theories and hypothesis have en-
Gagged the attention aid ingenuity of philosophers re-
earding the Aurora Boreas Among other things IL
has been ascrbed to PARTICLES thrown of from the sun
atmosphere. 10 reflections of the sun upon the polar
ices broken up comets and to electricity IN Vacuo
while in an earlier age it awakened superttlous terror
b,bcdeemed ominous Of war, pestence and famine ami
fearful supernatural precursor of the day OF Judgment
The revelations of science have brushed away those
decisions and late experiments and discoveries shoN
that an armospherical phenomenon, that all the ee
.nis necessary 10 account tor exist N the air ani are
REGULATED and governed by atmOsp riCsl laws ~ plainly
a. he rainbow the huss which glow in the evening SKY
The basis or ,Ebsrate Of the Aurora Is unul't'k1oly
light thin transparent vspor approaching t1e CONDITION OF
the cloud, called Cirrus by NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. stratum
REGULARLY susceptiHe of magnetic Influences.
Nj Farsdsy IN bis recent explanation OF the power and
force e electro states that NE Di1gasfi f'r'
rot, NJ tari troBi pale 10 po rsIag f 0R heais Daer
ana pasia ore; 5patoia int tse 0taer aenl'
"Jt,,s, nhich con Dietes ~ etrchH Of porsr'
These lines Of magnetic force rise At gres'er angles
the high than in the equatorial attitudes In the higher
ATTITUDES they unter and act upon and rradit- the
vsporous media which form the bass Of the Aurora Boreh
Ts-V bile the couuscatous-ihe fantastic mOtOns-ths
suuIy hues-the almost heat lightning glances and the
prsnsc coCrs due 20 the electro magnetic -h' r.
heeed on the watery part Of the vapo and the chenc Al
aei'son the elements in the mysterious meteorological
/ processes
tappears from the foregoing data that the Aurora 30
r.slis con.-'s Of translucent humid vapor, analogous 70
and not higher than the clouds inflated condensed spread
abroad AID otherwise mOoifed by gases and chemical al
fuiies aud Illuminated by meteorological process evo
7 "yipg ELECTRO MAGNETIC LIGHr.' %.