320 Notice of several Meteors. 
vivid appearance, caused many persons to ~— their eyes, 
rendering candles for an instant perfectly use 
The Oxford (Chenango) Gazette says, it wiionnisbig a 
feet; and that it was more brilliant than the most vivid 
flashes of lightning, or even the meridian sun. 
The Herkimer — observes, that an explosion was 
heard from the south, about four minutes after the meteor 
passed, which resembled the discharge of four or five pie- 
ces of artillery. 
A writer in the sige: donee. Oneida, Intelligencer, 
sa 
Te A After passing aleiigst i in a direction from north to south, 
for the space of half a mile, it passed me, as near as I coul 
judge, about three hundred yards, when it burst with a vi- 
olence which seemed to throw all nature into convulsions. 
It discharged its massy balls of electric fire in every direc- 
tion, when all disappeared before they reached the ground; 
Jeaving in its train an astonishing mass of livid fire, which 
remained after the explosion, for the — of Nee minutes, 
and then gradually disappeared like the rain 
- The Sentinel (printed at Saratoga Satna seal — 
_ A very large and brilliant meteor passed near this vil- 
“Tage on Saturday = in the direction of southwest 
produced, for a few seconds, was sufficient to enable 
ay oT the sehatifiants to discern, in their dwellings, the 
most minute objects. A report, like the sound of distant 
thunder, succeeded.” 
It was seen about 10 o’clock, at Ballston Spa, and a pa- 
per printed in that village, says, its light was so intense 
“as to arrest persons walking as if they had received an 
electric shock. At an elevation of about 10 degrees it gave 
out corruscations like a beautiful rocket—leaving a lumin- 
ous train, and on its disappearance, two and some say three, 
reports were heard.” 
‘The Montreal Herald, thus notices the meteor as seen at 
that place. 
“ As two gentlemen were walking down St. Paul: street 
about half past 9 o’clock last Saturday night, their attention 
was attracted by a flash of light that illuminated the atmos- 
phere, notwithstanding the radiance of a full moon. As it 
apparently proceeded from the south side of the river, and 
