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as if they had been intensely heated. ‘The sky was perfectly clear at the 
time of the fall. 
No. 23.—Meteorie Stone which fell near Agra on the 7th August, 1822.— 
At a late meeting of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a large meteoric 
stone was placed on the library table, with a particular account of its fall, in 
the Persian language. This was translated by Dr. Wilkins. The stone fell 
in the night of the 7th of August, 1822, near the village of Kadonah, in the 
district of Agra. It descended with much noise as of cannon and of the 
wind, awakening those who were asleep, and alarming a watchman who heard 
it fall. On making a search in the morning the stone was found warm, and 
with a little smoke arising from it. It is to be subjected to examination. 
No. 24..—Meteor of 3rd November 1825, observed at Caleutta——Colonel 
Blacker’s third communication gives an account of a singular meteor, having 
the appearance of an elongated ball of fire, which he observed on the 3rd of 
November, a little after sunset, when on the road between the custom-house 
and the court-hall. Its colour was pale, for the daylight was still strong, and 
its larger diameter appeared greater, and its smaller less than the semi- 
diameter of the moon. Its direction was from east to west, its track nearly 
horizontal, and altitude about thirty degrees. Col. B. regrets not having heard 
of any other observation of this phenomenon at a greater distance, whereby 
he might have estimated its absolute height. As, however, it did not appa- 
rently move with the velocity of ordinary meteors, it was probably at a great 
distance, and consequently of great size. So long as Col. Blacker beheld it, 
which was for five or six seconds, its motion was steady, its light equable, and 
its size and figure permanent. It latterly, however, left a train of sparks, 
soon after which it disappeared suddenly, without the attendant circumstance 
of any report audible in Col. Blacker’s situation. Col. Blacker concludes his 
paper with some interesting observations on luminous meteors, and considers 
them of perpetual occurrence, although daylight, clouds and misty weather, 
so often exclude them from our view. Of their number no conception can 
be formed by the unassisted eye, but some conjecture may be formed of their 
extent from the fact mentioned by our author, that in using his astronomical 
telescope he has often seen what are called falling stars, shooting through the 
field of view, when they were not visible to the naked eye; and when it is 
considered that the glass only embraced one twenty-five thousandth part of 
the celestial hemisphere, it will be apparent that these phenomena must be 
infinitely numerous, in order to occur so frequently in so small a space.— Cal- 
cutta Government Gazette. 
No. 25.—Meteor of 22nd November 1825, observed at Calcutta.—A re- 
markable meteor was visible on Friday night S.W. of the comet and near it. 
It appeared in shape at first like a ball of fire, which assumed the form of a 
vividly brilliant comet. This continued beautifully and powerfully luminous 
for some minutes, but gradually waxed fainter and fainter, until at length it 
totally disappeared.—India Gazette, Dec. 5. 
No. 26.— Meteors of 23rd June and 24th July 1832, observed at Delhi and 
Meerut—Delhi, 28th July 1832. An extraordinary large meteor, or rather 
three balls of fire, at first arose out of the E.S.E. horizon on the 23rd of last 
month, and after rising to the elevation of about fifteen degrees, joined into 
one, forming a large ball of brilliant fire, nearly as big as a full moon in the me- 
ridian, and passed over an arc of the heavens of about 115° before it vanished 
in the W.N.W. The light was very brilliant. This took place about ten 
o’clock at night, and I suppose but few persons witnessed it.—Jndia Gazette. 
