128 On the Appearance of Meteors 
was 35° in length, formed an angle with the horizon of about 
60°, and a retardation was observed in its motion just before 
it disappeared. In 2! days afterwards, heavy rain and 
wind came on from S.W. and W. 
July 2lst. Between 9 and 10 P.M. two brilliant meteors ap- 
peared—one inclined to the eastward nearly in the direction 
of the wind; the other was opposed to it, and passed be- 
tween Arcturus and « in the Northern Crown, At this time 
loose patches of cirrostratus were observed in different parts 
of the sky, succeeded in the night by heavy rain and wind. 
—- 22d. Two small lofty meteors appeared to the eastward at 
11 P.M. A copious dew fell in the night. The following 
day was marked by variable winds that terminated in a very 
strong southerly gale, which brought up heavy rain from 
that quarter. 
—-— 27th. From a quarter before till a quarter past 1] P.M. four 
meteors appeared—the lowest and largest of these, at five 
minutes before 11 o’clock, descended in a southerly direc- 
tion, immediately under the constellation Bootes: both the 
head and train were red, the latter about 15° long, accom- 
panied by a hissing, like that of a sky-rocket in its ascension, 
and did not disappear till a second of time after the extinc- 
tion of the former. The sky at the same time was filling 
with dense cirrostratus, and soon became overcast. The 
following day opposite winds and light rain occurred, 
—-— 28th. At half past 10 P.M. a small meteor passed under 
Dubhe, in Ursa Major, and left a whitish train behind it, 
about two seconds after the body had disappeared. From 
- that time till 12 o’clock, eight other meteors, nearly of the 
same height, appeared without trains, viz. two under the 
Northern Crown, and one on each side of it, one over Ju- 
piter and Saturn, one near the Pleiades, and two in the 
brightest part of the Milky Way to the southward. Strong 
gales from the S.W. happened on the two subsequent days. 
Aug. 3d. From 9 till half past 10 P.M. five meteors shot in dif- 
ferent directions, two of them had long sparkling trains, 
which disappeared with the meteors—the largest of these 
having been formed in the lower atmosphere to the south- 
ward, cast a white light on the ground. While these me- 
teors appeared, a pretty white level sératus rose from the 
grass-fields and surrounding lakes, and was followed by a 
dense fog throughout the night. 
— 4th. From 9 till 12 P.M. sixteen small and middle-sized 
meteors appeared in various parts of the sky, which was ap- 
parently cloudless; six of these had very long luminous 
trains, and some of them continued to issue sparks after the 
bodies 
