Meteor seen in Holland, 3{)5 



The difficulty which has attended the opening and closing 

 valves of sufficient water-way, having presented great ob- 

 stacles to a regularity of movement, — this objection is 

 surmounted in this instance by the invention of a new 

 valve, which admits apertures of large size, and is opened 

 and closed with any required velocity, and is applicable to 

 the passage either of waier or steam. 



To Mr, Tilloch. 

 Sir, — If you will please to communicate the following 

 fact through the medium of your very intelligent Magazine, 

 some of your readers will probably favour the public with 

 their opinions upon the subject. 



On my passage from Rio de .Taniero to this place, on 

 Jjoard the ship Favorite, Capt. Atkinson, on July the 14th, 

 being in latitude 31° 56' and longitude per account 39° 30', 

 at six A.M., when below, felt a very singular sensation 

 which lasted near a minute. All below ran upon deck, 

 feeling the ship shake as if she was passing over a wreck, 

 rubbing very hard ; or as if some very heavy body was 

 rolled from one end of the ship to the other. To the officer 

 and people on deck the sensation was as if the ship was 

 going over a bar, touching, but not stopping ; this lasted 

 nearly the space of a minute. Some ran few the lead, which 

 was hove in the shortest time possible, — no bottom : others 

 sounded the pump, — no difference; — each looked astonished 

 and panic-struck. The sea was smooth, a gentle breeze 

 westerly, all sail set ; the ship was loaded with coffee. At 

 about seven A. M., an hour after, the same sensation was 

 felt, less sensible and of shorter duration. — Could it arise 

 from electricity ? 



Any of your readers favouring the public with their 

 opinion, will much oblige 



Your humble servant, 



A Passknger. 



MKTEOR SEEN IN HOLLAND. 



Wall (on the Meuse}, Sept. 22. 



On the 19th of this month, between the hours of five and 

 six in the evening, a luminous meteor appeared to the 

 south, and about the distance of a quarter of a league from 

 the small commune of Brezeau : persons who attentively 

 examined it assert that it was nearly a quarter of an hour 

 in collecting, floating over the place where it was fi** seen ; 



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