[I am indebted to Miss Annie Ludlam for a translation from the German of the above Memoir.—J. R. C.]
FOOTNOTES
[1] βόθυνος, a hollow.
[2] πίθος, a cask.
[3] χάσμς, a chasm.
[4] M. Lemström (Swedish Expedition, 1868) concludes that the corona of the Aurora Borealis is not entirely a phenomenon of perspective, but that the rays have a true curvature, that they are currents flowing in the same direction and attract each other. There is also an account [antè, p. 16] of an Aurora at Melville Island (Parry’s first voyage), in which two arches were seen curving towards each other.
[5] A brilliant display in December 1870, on the east coast of Sicily, was followed by very violent storms, with the overflow of the Tiber and the flooding of Rome.
[6] Some curious instances have been recently (January 1879) given in the ‘Times’ of such electric phenomena, comprising, amongst others, gas lighted by the finger in Canada, points of flame seen on the ironwork of Teignmouth Bridge, and similar points seen on the alpenstocks and axes of a party making a mountain ascent in Switzerland.
[7] On the occasion of the Aurora of September 24, 1870, Dr. Allnatt says, “the air seemed literally alive with the unwonted phosphorescence.”