Meteors of Nov. 13, 1834. 307 
From Fort Marion, St. Augustine, E. Florida, Capt. Drane re- 
ports that no recurrence of the meteors had been observed, and that 
no remarkable meteorological occurrence was recorded about the pe- 
riod designated, in November. 
No recurrence of the meteors was observed at Fort Jackson, on 
the river Mississippi, below New Orleans, commanded by Capt. G. 
M. Gardiner. 
General Atkinson states from Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis, 
Missouri, that no occurrence of the sort alluded to in the circular 
was observed in the autumn of 1834 by “any one at the post, nor 
was there such a recurrence any where in the west as far as [his] in- 
quiries had exten 
“Lieut. Col. Vaio fepuns from Fort Towson, on the Red river 
below the mouth of the Kiameche, that no recurrence of the mete- 
ors had been observed as far as he could Jearn in the section of the 
country in which the post is situated. 
Col. Dodge commanding the regiment of dragoons, reports from 
Fort Leavenworth, on the Missouri river, at the junction of the 
Little Platt, that no remarkable meteoric phenomenon had occurred 
since his arrival at the post on the 27th of September; he adds 
that “a recurrence of an event so remarkable as the one mention- 
ed, could not have escaped the notice of the sentinel on post.” 
From Fort Snelling, Falls of St. Anthony, Upper Mississippi 
River, Maj. Bliss reports that from an examination of the sentinels 
who had been on post during the night of the 12th and 13th of Noy. 
he could not learn that any recurrence of the meteoric phenomenon 
of 1833, had been observed. He gives a particular account of a 
very bright meteor seen at 5 o’clock A.M. on the morning of the 
9th of Fatioary, 1835. 
Lieut. Col. Davenport, commanding at Fort Armstrong, Rock 
Island, Upper Mississippi river, Hlinois, states as the result of in- 
formation, which is satisfactory to him, that no meteoric phenomenon 
was observed on the 13th of Nov. 1834, at his post. He gives the 
temperature at 7 o’clock A. M. on the 13th of Nov. as 42° Fah., 
the wind N. E., and the weather fair. 
The reports from Fort Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois, commanded 
by Maj. Green, and from Fort Winnebago, portage between the 
Fox and Ouisconsin rivers, N. W. Territory, commanded by Lieut. 
Col. Cutler, state that no unusual meteoric display was noticed there 
on the night referred to. 
