Show 1 D om the albany E journal f RE remarkable DISPLAY OF AURORA BOREALIS during a portion of last night and this thia morning a peculiar aurora appeared in the northern heavens at 12 PM of the an cloud was visible northern horizon and occasional streamers were given off from the cloud being mostly coull confined ned to tile the east and and west limits but it was not until 5 6 ayn AM of the that we noticed anything t liln unusual in this phenomenon at t hat that time a black cloud lay P piled plied lied up in iu the north extending along t the he horizon about degrees this cloud increased in darkness as it approached the horizon and we have reason to believe it ift was an cloud since the sky was perfecta clear dear and not a single vapor cloud was visible in any portion of the heavens this cloud had an altitude of about 30 degrees on the meridian and the upper margin was fringed with the light forming at times a complete arch the streamers or flakes of light were thrown off from the northeast and northwest ends of the cloud with astonishing rapidity wo we estimated the motion from the horizon to the zenith at less than the one tenth of a second of time at ah lom the streamers seemed bojet to jet in one constant stream from the northwest and northeast portion of the cloud while all along the north the aurora arch threw off waves of light every two or three seconds at this time it was truly a L grand and magnificent phenomenon these detached flakes formed in such a ra rapid id tream stream from the cloud as almost to te bewilder one in trying to follow them at oh the hakes and streamers con tined to appear and disappear in re remarkably quick succession and occasionally casio nally an immense wave of light was vas rolled tolled from the whole northern horizon and disappeared in the zenith DUDLEY observatory feb 21 1866 1860 |