324 Notice of several Meteors. 
withdrawing from the ball on the top of the church till 
Capt. W. thought its apparent diameter was about equal 
to that of the meteor, I measured it with a sextant and found 
it 10’. : ess 
* Col. Lemuel Page, of Burlington, Vt. was in his back 
yard at the time above mentioned, and had his attention ar- 
rested by what is commonly called a shooting star, no way 
differing from such as frequently appear in considerable 
numbers. When he first saw it he thought it about in the 
centre of the triangle formed by lines joining Mars, Castor, 
and Procyon. It moved on southwesterly, passing a little 
southeast of Procyon, and about one third of the way from 
its apparent path. 
The place of this observation is in lat. 44° 28’, lon. 73° 
15’. The azymuth of the meteor during its whole course 
as determined both by the north pole and the globe, was 
about south 34° west. Its altitude when first seen by Col. 
. was about 62°, the first coruscation when it became an 
object of general attention, and when Capt.W. first noticed 
it 35°, and at its disappearance 6°. Its apparent diameter, 
obtained by measuring the breadth of the chimney with a 
sextant was 12’ 
The places of the meteor computed from these observa- 
tions, by Dr. Bowditch’s rule given in Mem. A. A. Vol. 3, 
are, at its first brilliant coruscation, lat. 43° 54’, lon. 73° 
47’, about fifty-nine miles from Burlington and eighty-three 
rom Windsor, over the unsettled part of Essex county, N. 
¥. about fifteen miles west of Crown Point, and at its dis- 
appearance from Capt. W. lat. 42° 45’, lon. 74° 49’, one 
hundred and forty-four miles from Burlington and one hun- 
dred and thirty-three from Windsor, over the western part 
of Schoharie county, and its motion south 34° west. In 
the former wee according to Capt. W’s. observation it 
was about forty-one miles from the earth, according to 
