ABSTRACT

Haliburton, T.C. The sun has scarcely set behind the dark wavy outline of the western hills, ere the aurora borealis mimics its setting beams, and revels with wild delight in the heavens, which it claims as its own, now ascending with meteor speed to the zenith, then dissolving into a thousand rays of variegated light, that vie with each other which shall first reach the horizon; now flashing bright, brilliant and glowing, as emanations of the sun, then slowly retreating from view pale and silvery white like wandering moonbeams.