TITLE:  AURORA BOREALIS IN 1649

SOURCE:  New England Historical & Genealogical Registers, Jan 1859, pg 54.

SUBMITTED BY:  Transcribed by T.C. Parziale October 2000

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	"Being late out on Saturday night to see my horse eat his Oates, it 
being past 12 a clock at night, we saw in the North East, in the Ayre, 2 
black Clowdes firing one against the other, as if they had been 2 Armies in 
the Clowdes:  The fire was disserned some times more, and some times lesse by
us.  It was not a continuing fire, but exactly as if Musketiers were 
discharging one against another.  some times there could be no fire seene, 
and then about half an houre after, we could discerne the North clowde 
retreat:  And so it did till the day began to appear, and all the while the 
last Clowde following it, both firing each at other:  It was the strangest 
sight that ever I saw, nor can I relate the exactnesse of it, it was in such
a wonderfull manner that I cannot express it:  Many of the city saw it, and 
some of the Countrey."  

-- From a letter dated "Chester 19 June 1649,"  in 
Perfect Occur., p 1084, under date Friday, June 22, 1649.

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