28 RULES FOR FINDING THE EQUATION FOR THE 



FOR THE SECOND PART. 



Change of declination during the 



half interval 2' 28" P. L. 1. 8631 



Sun's declination 16° 21' logcotan. + 10. 5326 



12. 3.957 

 Horary angle 52' 30' log. cotan. — 9. 8850 



p - L - — 2.5107 =0' 33"=2" 12"'in 



time, being the second part of the equation, and deductive by 

 the rule. 



Application. 



Apparent time of the sun's center on ) 12 h 2" 22" 0" v 



the meridian by equal altitudes nearly ) 



First part of the equation +10" 24" 



Second do — 2. 12 +8. 12 



Sun's centre on the meridian 12. 2. 30. 12. 



No. V. 



Account of an extraordinary flight of meteors (commonly catted 

 shooting 0/ stars) communicated by Andrew Etticot, Esq. as ex- 

 tracted from his Journal in a voyage from New-Orleans to Phila- 

 delphia. 



Read 16th January, 1801 



" NOVEMBER 12th 1799, about three o'clock, A. M. I 

 was called up to see the shooting of the stars (as it is commonly 

 called.) The phenomenon was grand and awful, the whole 

 heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which dis- 

 appeared only by the light of the sun after day break. The 

 meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared as nume- 



