THE AURORA.
(XO THE EDITOB OP THE TIMES.) Sib,—Tour correspondent, " Invercargillite," might, I think, have been less severe on my friend " Rivertonian." A fallacy is best exposed by placing the acknowledged truth side by side with it, and to have done so would have been more generous and much more satisfactory to your readers, than telling a man " his letter is full of errors." I cannot but adruire the very lucid exposition of the cause of the aurora given by " Invercargillite " himself, in his first, 2nd, and 3rd. The substance of it I take to be—That nothing definite is yet known on the matter, and." that it is satisfactory for us to know that we are probably on the eve of the discovery of this very interesting question." His P.S., however, comes a little more to the point, and I would ask him as a favor to point out one instance wherein " storms upon the earth " were known to have heen associated with the aurora, or with any peculiar position of the spots in the sun, and if he would mention the standard author who records such an occurrence, he would not only oblige me but perhaps otherß.—l am, &c, James Bhowit, A semi-fiivertonian. Eiyjerton, 9th May, 1870.
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Southland Times, Issue 1249, 13 May 1870, Page 2
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208THE AURORA. Southland Times, Issue 1249, 13 May 1870, Page 2
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