CHAP. IV.] CURIOUS METEOR. 1Q1 



moment of detection bearing north at an altitude 

 of about 23 degrees ; it was then in rapid mo- 

 tion, and having ascended to 25 degrees or 

 thereabouts, it declined, its course being some- 

 thing of a paraboloid. It was, as seen, of about 

 the size of a man's hand, and its colour was that 

 of a pale emerald. When it separated, which 

 it did at its lowest altitude, it dispersed into 

 three parts, each of the same pale tinge, and 

 vanished from the sight. Having myself been 

 travelling south at the time, I was unfortunate 

 enough not to see it. In the morning however, 

 at a quarter before ten o'clock, while standing 

 on a hummock about seventeen feet high, and 

 looking to the east, I had observed the upper 

 limb of the sun, as it filled a triangular cleft on 

 the ridge of the headland, of the most brilliant 

 emerald colour, a phenomenon which I had 

 not witnessed before in these regions. In about 

 five minutes afterwards the sun rose clear and 

 bright, over the summit of the same hill, and 

 the whole sky was free from clouds and appa- 

 rently from vapour ; though, as I previously 

 remarked, I saw from the shore a lane of water 

 near the Point. 



January 18th. — During the few last days 

 nothing occurred to vary our position. Several 

 shooting parties had been on shore, and Lieu- 

 tenant Stanley accompanied by Mr. Saunders, 



