Notice of several Meteors. 323 
esting to those who wish to explore the causes of such phe- 
nomena. The following observations would have been 
communicated immediately had [ not hoped to obtain oth- 
ers to compare with them; but in this I have not suc- 
ceeded, and I now transmit them with such inferences as 
they afford: 
Capt. Allen Wardner of Windsor, Vt. states, that on os 
10th of March, about 10 o’clock in the evening, he. was 
walking. along the east side of what is called the tontine 
building in that village and had Just reached the southeast 
corner, when the first corruscation burst forth. His first 
thought was that a large barn northwest of the tontine had 
suddenly burst into a flame, and he hastened on. to get a 
sight of it across the southwest corner of the building, but 
had not proceeded more than three steps when the body of 
the meteor came in sight over the south end of the roof, 
and he had a full view of it for more than 40 seewte mov- 
distant. It was excessively bright, and sparkles were fly- 
ing from it in all directions and left. a dusky reddish track 
which continued especially about the middle of its length 
for two minutes. He thought it was nearly round, and its 
diameter somewhat less than that of a ball which surmounts 
the dome of the Episcopal Church which was near its ap- 
parent path. 
The alae “ Windsor is by estimation in lat. 43° 29 
lon. 72° 29’. I had no theodolite t to determine the azy- 
muth, ie I ascertained the meridian sufficiently Ay as I 
thought, by the north pole, and measured. the sides of a 
right angled triangle, one angle of which was ceulsinen be- 
tween the meridian and the end of the building, and find- 
ing the angles by the traverse table, [ ascertained that it 
declined 20° 30’ toward the west. The second or third 
steps taken. after the first flash subtended an angle at the 
west corner of 3° 45’, so that the bearing of the meteor 
when first seen was about north 65° 45’ west. Capt. 
had no object by which to regulate his recollections of the 
altitude, but he fixed on a point the altitude of which I 
found to be 29° 30’. I determined the azymuth of the me- 
teor at its disappearance in the same manner, and found 1 
to ‘be, south 67° 30’ west, and its altitude 119 30. Then 
