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N.C. Hertford Co. Oak Lawn, 30th Jan 18[illegible]
I will first record a wonder of a few nights ago
Aurora Borealis - of 25th Inst
Our attention is at this moment & at PM (25 Jany attra-
cted by an Aurora Borealis as Astronomers call such
Northern lights. We first discovered it at about 1/2 / 2
6 o.c. when the light to the North N.E. was red as
the red of sun set - Some of the family were at first
alarmed. It spreads over all the Northern horizon app-
raching the Zenith: and makes every thing light out
the door as if the moon were shining, and it is very dark
nights until near 10, o.c. This is the strangest sight
of the kind that any of us ever saw - I mean to so great a
degree for Northern lights on a small scale are common to
every person's view.

It is a wonderful phenomenon of nature, but perhaps as
natural as thunder and rain, excepting that its cause is
not so apparent. Indeed, philosophers have yet failed to account
for it, many of this body write almost their knowledge divine
differ as to its cause the cause of the Aurora Borealis. The most
probably accounts yet given deduce these wonderful lights from elec-
tricity. A writer very recently has furnished much information on
this wonderful law of nature. Of this night's appearance I look
out for an Astronimical report (The above is a copy
of what I wrote at the very time of the strange appearance
it pruports.)
Jan 31st, (Fr) vast quantity of rain on the earth - very cloudy.
truly this dreary winter. All nature chilled in water and ice scenes
sleeping the sleep of cold death outdoor business is forbiding so
wet soddy and disable. Indoors however all find business most
agreeable.

Sun Set feel very disinclined to study from indisposition

1st day of Feb. (Wed.) Hail short month - a pretty morn ushers thee
in the sun clean the wind breezing from South, the blue
birds giving their cheerful notes: [a ll?] reminding the farmer [missing text]
a new years crop and the knell of time's approaching [missing text]
It is time saith this morn's indications for all men to be
complying with the design of their creation - to number
among the heads of famililies, to be virtuously and industrious-
ly engaged in a life business, replenish the species and perpetuate
their names, and leave a life spotless and exemplary and a
name worth a pleasing and useful remembrance [missing text]

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