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"ln the year 1888, grea: part of Europe was
overspread for weeks with haziness of utmos-
phere which caused great constornation. The
churcks were crowded with supplicants. The
astronomer Laland, attempted to aay the fright
by endeavourng to account for the appearance,
which ne ascribed TO an uncommon exhalation of
watery particles from the great rain of the pre-
ceding year. But at last the cause was ascertain
cd to be smoke from tho great eruption ef the vol
caiio Hecla. in Iceland, which covered more than
three thousand square miles with burning lava,
in some places to the depth Of forty feet. Il had
this account from DIR. Franklin, who was in Eu-
rcpo at the time.


"ln late paper. published by the Millertos, |
saw an article stating that the northern lights fore
tel something terrible. The writer seems not to
Know that IN the high northern latitudes, in the
slAteenth degree and northward rd, northern lights
arc of daily occurrence, and so have been from
time immemorial So illuminated are the heavens
that persons may often see to read in the night.


"These lights occasionally como so far south
as to illuminate'the sky in our latitude. Some
times they do not appear for many years. At
the close of the seventeenth and beginning Of the
eighteenth century, these lights were not seen for
a long period, and whom they re-appeared, about
the year 1917, our ancestors who had not seen
or heard of them, were oil alarmed, and actually
supposed that the day Of judgement had come.


"During my life have beer much accus-
toned to see northern lights, falling stars, SO call
cd, and fro balls, that they haze long since
ed to excite my curiosity


"Neary thirty years ago read an article in
Vermont paper, stating that the northern light on
'a certain evening, was so low to be visible be-
tween the spectator and distant mountain.


\. WEBSTER