The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)
Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 375
ofcontaining. Again rods of white light would dartforth from the horizon, and one in particular span-ned the whole arch of heaven. This play of thenorthern lights continued from seven till nearlynine, and was most brilliant and magnificent aboutnine, when it assumed another and not less singu-lar… … second arch the space was not so dark; and be-tween the middle and upper arch it was still lighter,excepting where the corruscations shot upwardfrom the middle arch, and there it was very dark.The ray shooting up on the right was extremely bril-liant. Stars were partially visible above the…
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