gt^ • ACCOUNT OF THE METBOR SEEN IN COKNECriCUT* 



^Mogutkc ^oc* I naeation them merely as they offer a coutra&t to Mr. Mur- 

 ray's. The instances of these two gentlemen show the na* 

 ture of hypothetical reasoniiii^, and its tendency, when 

 followed, to draw the, ablest philosophers into difficulties, 

 I am, Sir, with great respe(?t. 



Your very Ijumble servant, 



JOHN DAVY. 



London^ Feb. 9, 1811. 



VI. 



An Estimate of the Heighty Velocity, and Magnitude of the 

 Meteor, that exploded pver IVeston, in Connecticut, . Decern-' 

 her the \Ath, 1807 : with Methods of calculating Observa^ 

 tions made on such Bodies. By Nathaniel Bowditch, 

 A.M. A. A. S. and Member of the Philosophical Society 

 held at Philadelphia. 



/'Concluded from p. 97.^ 



Observations at Wenhanii Weston^ and Rutland. 



Account of ^OME time after the appearance of the meteor, I went with 

 ikMsappearance ]\|(., Pickering to Mrs, Gardner's house in Wenham. wl^ere 

 H Wenham. she had observed the phenomenon. She informed us, that 

 on the morning of the fourteenth of December, 1807, whvn 

 she rose, she went toward the window of her chamber, 

 which looks to the westward, for the purpose of pbscrving 

 the weather, according to her invariable practice for maHV 

 years past. The sky was clear, except a few thin clo.uds in 

 the west. It was past day-break, and by estiaiatioi) abovit 

 half an hour before sunrise, or seven o'clock. The metepr 

 was immediately observed just over the southern part qf the 

 barn in her farm yard, nearly in front of the window ; Jts 

 disc was well defined, and it resembled the ^i9Qi)^o niuch, 

 that, unprepared as Mr&. Gardner's mind wi^s^f"^ ^ |)hej:y>- 

 menon of that nature, she was not at first aware, that it was 

 pot the moon, till she perceived it in motion, when her 

 ^st reflection (to use her. ow.q words) was — where is the 

 moon going to? The reflection however was hin\]|y made, 

 when she corrected herself, and with her eye followed th<^ 

 Vgdy with the closest attention thVpughout its whole course. 



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