120 Notice of a Meteor. 
=. XL—Notice of a brilliant Meteor seen at Burling~ 
t. on the evening of April 14; im a letter to the 
Editor from GEORGE W. Benedict 
THIS meteor was seen by Dr. Henry S. Waterhouse, p50: 
a mile south of Burlmgton. It disappeared at twenty m 
utes past eleven. 
_ Its altitude* above the horizon, when first seen, was 9°, 48’; 
1s its azimuth, as observed, was north 49°, 30! east, orj 
deducting 7°, 36’ for the variation of the needle, its azimuth 
would be no orth 41°, 54’ east. Tis altitude when it went ont 
of sight, behind a ridge of land, was 3°, 6’, 20’, arp its cor- 
rected azimuth north, 26°, 57! east. The place of observa- 
tion is in ™ naan 449°, 26', and 3 in longitude 73°, 15’ west 
from Gree 
From its Aplewas magnitude to Dr. W. compared with 
that of the meridian sun, it must, on its first appearances 
have subtended an angle of about 7 minutes, which, from a 
similar ison, must have been enlarged to about twen- 
ty-eight minutes by the time of its leaving his sight. _ He re- 
marked, that it seemed to him to undergo a sudden enlarge- 
ment, at two different times, rather than a gradual one from 
first to last. Its tail was, at first, very small ; indeed, there 
was scarcely any ; but it increased in magnitude and ‘splen- 
dor with great rapidity, so that when the ball went below the 
These observations lead to a conclusion that it must have 
piped over a line very far to the north of this place. 
The impression on the mind of Dr. W. at the time was; 
that its course was nearly northwest ; but of course nothing 
can be known on this point save with the aid of other observa- 
tions, to which this notice may be auxiliary. 
0 one 
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unusual in such phenomena angles were John- 
on, Esq. of this village, and Rand ae: with an an excellent Teeosunce cack 
