I hardly dare venture, even in the most hypothetical form, to ask whether the Aurora Borealis and Australis may not be the discharge of electricity, thus urged towards the poles of the earth, from whence it is endeavoring to return by natural and appointed means above the earth to the equatorial regions.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Evolution of Electricity from Magnetism (p. 56), Richard & John Edward Taylor. 1839