June 1873, Mt. Lyell Studies, Glacier Cañon Erosion Image 29

Spitzbergen [Norway] Arctic Voyages. [ Adolf Erik] Nordenskiold pg 207 Right to the S near the horizon there was visible a faint reddish glimmer clearly & sharply distinguishable from the white moonlight. Here the sun had gone down….In the S.E. some few rays of light changing every moment in strength, color & position – in fact the ar [aurora] in the form it commonly takes here, raised themselves toward the horizon. During the whole of Dec. Jan. & part of Feb, the ar was very common, but in general its light was too feeble to diminish the darkness \u26 in any appreciable degree. It appeared at all hrs of the day & at all points of the compass, but principally in the S. It seldom occurred in the form most common in Swedon, that of a bow formed of a [bundle] of illuminated rays Resting on a dark bed of cld [cloud] or mist, but most frequently as a feebly-lighted border on the cld edges, or as long white rays now few in number & scattered, now numerous, & in that case generally combining in the zen [zenith] to form a more or less complete corona, occasionally again there occurred auroral bands, broad, strongly illuminated differently colored & folded as it were elegantly & exceedingly beautiful. They lasted only a little while. Voyage of the Vega vol. II Pg 40 & 36 The appearance of the ar [aurora] at Cape Serdye We never saw here the magnify [magnificent] bands or draperies of rays wh we are so accustomed to in Scandinavia but only halo-like arcs wh day after day hour after hr were unaltered in position. When the sky was not clouded & the faint light of the Ar was not dimmedhttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1586/thumbnail.jp