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ROBERT BROWNING'S well-known description of Aurora Borealis, in “Easter Day” (c. xv. xvii), is so graphic that it must have been written from personal observation. Probably few persons can fully appreciate its accuracy; but on September 24, in that wonderful Aurora year 1870, just such a display took place, which I had the fortunate opportunity of watching nearly all night from the Welsh hills, when all the phenomena Browning describes, and many others, were abundantly visible. But I can find no account of any such display having been seen in these latitudes earlier in the century, and “Easter Day” dates from 1850.
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S., B. Robert Browning and Meteorology. Nature 60, 245–246 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060245d0
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