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ON THE riERY METEOR, 



Citizen Caraudau for having publifhed the refult of his ob- 

 fervations, and that it ought to encoarage him thus to turn the 

 produ6l of his ufeful labours to ihe advantage of his country. 



Done in the clafs of phyfical and mathematical fciences, 

 tlie 1 1th Frudidor, in the year IX. 



Signed, Guyton and Vauquelin. 



The clafs approves the report and adopts the conclufions. 



XIV. 



Letter from Mr. John Farcy, concerning the great Fi^rj 

 . Meteor of Nov. 1 3, and on other SuhjeSis, 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 

 SIR, 



Corrcft date or JL HE great value of your Journal; as a record of fa5ls con- 

 thc appearance ng^gj ^vjtjj fcience, induces me to requeft you will correft 

 of the fiery me- i • , , <• . 



teor4n Novem- the errors which have unrorlunately crept into your account of 



bcr laft. ti^g meteor of the 13th ult. which is defcribed, in the fecond 



ivb, ^'"® of the title, and in the firft line of the account at page 27 9, 



to have happened on \hefixth ; and alfo in the title of the cuts 

 in the next page, where it is defcribed as an event of the^x- 

 teenth. I am much concerned that your friend who faw this 

 interefting plienomenon over St. Ann*s church-yard, did not 

 give an eftimate c.f its elevation, or of its neareft approach to 

 the zenith, or of the number of feconds during which the light 

 occafioned by it continued. 

 In()ul«es about I was not fo fortunate as to fee it myfelf, or fince to meet 

 lUcourfe, &c. ^\\\^ ^ny fcientific perfon who did, but on the following even- 

 ing, I enquired minutely of four or five watchmen of St. Mar- 

 tin's and St. Margaret's pariflies, who were in different places 

 at the time in their way to their refpedlve watch-houfes; I 

 went with each of thefe perfons to the fpot, and heard their 

 relation of every cireumllance which they faw; one of thefe 

 perfons being juft by the Horfe-Guards within the Park, and 

 another in the front of the Admiralty, agree in fixing the time 

 at about twenty-nine minutes paft eight by the Horfe-Guards 

 clock ; from their comparifon of its height with the feven ftars 

 then vifible (though it was rathec hazy) I am inclined to think 



that 



