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METEOROLOGY. | 
Observations at Augsburgh, July 30. By Professor Starx. 
According to the observation of the Rev. Mr. Stark, at thirty- 
nine minutes past 3 P.M. of yesterday, Reaumur’s thermometer 
was in the shade at 25°:,, and one exposed to the sun 35°,4, ; 
at the same time Saussure’s hygrometer indicated the highest 
degree of dryness or zero, and the manometer the greatest poro- 
sity (Lockerheit’ s) of the aiy 10°8, French grains. ‘The heat di- 
minished only one degree till forty-three minutes past four. The 
positive electricity of the air was still increasing and had reached 
to 16°; the negative had remained for several days at zero. 
The evaporation of the water in the atmometer amounted to 
24, Paris lines from a Paris square foot in twenty-four hours 
from the preceding day, when the thermometer was at 33° in 
‘the sun, and at 24° 8. in the shade, -till 4 o’clock P.M. After 
two thunder storms that passed off at a distance, followed by 
rain yesterday evening,—this morning, and at noon, the hygro- 
meter showed at half past two the greatest moisture or 100°, 
after having been only twenty-three hours before at zero, in the 
greatest degree of dryness, 
A Meteor. —Mr. Hall, Professor of Natural Philosophy in 
Middlebury College, United States, has published a scientific ac- 
‘count of a meteor, of uncommon magnitude aid brilliancy, seen - 
in that vicinity on the evening of the 17th of June. To some, 
he informs us, the diameter appeared as large as the full moon 
at rising ; but to others, not more than half as large. While in 
the heavens, it appeared to emit sparks; and some of the be- 
holders of it say, it exploded three times with a noise like heavy 
thunder, or, as some represent it, like three distinct discharges 
of a canuion in quick succession. Tt had the appearance of iron 
in a furnace the instant it-is beginning to fuse. The houses were 
jarred by the explosion, as they are by a slight earthquake. To 
one person it appeared to ‘‘roll over’’ in the agitation or leap, 
‘(the effect of the explosion,) and to grow less after each agita- 
tion, and shortly after the third disappeared. Many saw the 
"light, who did not see the meteor. Its distance, and of course 
magnitude, have not been ascertained; and there was a dif- 
ference in the computation of the time it was visible. One per- 
son thinks it was fifteen minutes after having seen the agitation, 
before he heard the reports ; which, if correct, would have placed* 
the meteor two hundred miles distant. ‘Sound passes about 
thirteen miles in a minute. But meteors have been seen to move 
at the rate of one thousand miles in a minute. 
The Professor is anxious to ascertain if any stones were pro- 
jected from this meteor; and hopes to hear something on: the 
subject from his friends in the eastern part of Vermont, or New 
Hampshire, in which direction it passed, 
