The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser

AURORA BOREALIS.

There was a magnificent display of the Northern Lights, last Saturday night, between the hours of seven and ten. During all the early part of the evening a large section of the horizon, from the eastern point of the compass to the northwest, was burning with an intense splendor, like that of a tremendous conflagration seen through a thin haze. At half past eight, streaks of dazzling brightness began to shoot up to the very zenith, and as the flashes diverged from a common centre, and thin, pointed blades of light were continually piercing their way through the sky, and shifting about from place to place with inconceivable swiftness, the effect was beautiful beyond description. Occasionally a broad band would wave and flutter for a minute or more in one spot, like a great flag in a smart breeze, and this would presently be lost in an immense sheet as of white fire, which would suddenly overspread the whole heavens. Altogether it was a glorious spectacle.-Bost. Commentator.

We watched the splendid exhibition above described, the greater part of the evening, till near 11 o'clock. During some of the time it was indescribably splendid, displaying to a great extent, the prismatic colors with all the brilliancy of the rainbow. Twice during the evening appearances were witnessed such as we have accounts of in former times, when, without much help from the imagination, armed hosts might be seen engaged in battle, with banners waving, and troops of horsemen riding to and fro. We have never before seen any thing of the kind equal to this, except the surpassingly grand displays of the Autumn of 1828, which probably were never exceeded in a latitude so far south as this.