316 Notice of several Meteors. 
and for a few seconds before. The pleasing surprise whicit_ 
course was nearly north. A gentleman who was in the 
township of Gustavus precisely 20 miles north from the 
place where I was, saw the light and thought the sound 
succeeded in something more than a minute. 
It is a little more than 40 miles from this place to the south 
shore of Lake Erie ; and much of the country south of the 
lake, is still a wilderness, making it uncertain whether-any 
discoveries will be made if meteoric stones have fallen. I 
they should be discovered, perhaps they will not be worth 
sending a distance to analyze, the results of former experi- 
ments having been so uniformly the same. ae 
The Pennsylvania Meteor of Nov. 1819. 
The following account of the meteor which was seen in 
Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the 2tst of Nov. 1819, 
we have extracte n | .merican Watchman. After 
some introductory observations the Editor remarks :— 
“While standing in the open air, we were surprized by 
a sudden flood of light sufficient to enable us to read the 
smallest print. We soon discovered a fireball in motion 
in a direction east northeast, and 50 or 60 degrees above 
the horizon. It passed a little to the south of our zenith, 
towards the opposite point of compass, and about 30 degrees 
ve the western horizon it became invisible. This body 
was, perhaps, about two seconds in progression, before we 
saw it; from which we infer, that it first appeared about 
30 degrees. above the eastern horizon; hence it travelled, 
whilst within view, about 120 degrees in the heavens, and 
ina period, we believe, of not less than five nor miore than 
ten seconds. The size of the body, when first observed, 
might be about half that of the full moon. The tail which 
projected from it was of a conical shape, well defined, and 
extending from the ball to the apex, about 4 or 5 degrees, 
