Meteorology. — A/lrononiv. iqi 



The fame chemifl: is cnsiagcd in analvfing the ink of the 

 cuttle- lilh. The cxpcrinu-nis are nol fiiiifhcd, hut from the 

 progrefs he has made it appears tu he carbon held in i'onie 

 itate of folution. 



METKOROLOG V, 



A phrenomenoii was fcen to pafs Ratan Rouge, on the 

 \liffiilippi, in the l.ititude of 31' north, on the night of the 

 5th of Ajiril ]8oo, of which the following is the belt deferip- 

 tion we have been able to obtain * : — It was firll I'tt^n in the 

 foiith-we(t, and moved fo rapidlv, paffinsr over the heads of 

 tlie fpeclators, as to difappear in the north-eaft in about a 

 quarter of a minute. Its apparent (Ize was that of a iarae 

 houfe feventv or eightv feet long, and of a form nearly re 

 fenibling the annexed ligurc (Plate V. fig. 3.) 



It appi\n-ed to be about 200 vards above the furface of the 

 earth, wholly luminous, but not emitting fparks ; of a colour 

 refcmbling the fun near the horizon in a cold frofty evenino-, 

 and which may be called a crimfon red. When pailiug riohi 

 over the heads of the fpeclators, the light on the furface 

 of the earth was litilc fliort of the effedl of fun-boams, 

 though at the fime time, looking another way, the Itars 

 were vifible ; which appears to be a conlhmation of the opi- 

 nion formed of its moderate elevation. 



In parting, a confiderable degree of heat was felt by tnofe 

 who faw it, but no elertrie fenfation. Inmiediately after it 

 difappearcd in the noith-cait, a violent rufliing nolfe wa$ 

 heard, as if the phicnomoiioa was bearing down the foreft 

 before it, and in a few feconds after a tremendous erafli, 

 fimilar to that of the largvfl: piece of ordnance, caufing at the 

 fame time a very fenfible oarlhquake. 



Search being afterwards made in the place where the burn- 

 ing body fell, e\erv vegetable body was tound burnt or greatly 

 feorchod, and a conhderable portion of the lurface of the 

 earth broken up. 



ASTROXOM V. 



ProfefTor Bode, of Berlin, has received two letters from 

 M. Piazzi of Palermo, in which that indefatigable obferver 

 of the heavens declares that he is now convinced, as profelfor 

 Bode is, that the ftar difcovered on the 13th of January laft 

 is a planet, though owing to the fainlnels of its light lie at 

 firft thought otherwife. lie adds alfo, that it will not be 

 Vifible till November!. The German allrononiers propofe to 



• Communicated in a Ji.trcr('tom VV. Dunh.ii, li'ij. (oneoftlic i^entie- 

 mcn employed in running the line of demarcation lietwccii the United 

 States of America ai\U tlie SpaiiHh feitkmcntt) to Mr. bv.ift, of Feti- 

 churcli-flrcct. 



t In Knj^land the general bi-Iief is thit tliis fvippofed planet will tura 

 •ut to be a cwmtt. 



