394 Mr. J. Glaislier vn the Meteor which appeared 



seen, I should feel gratified if this comraimication shoidd verify 

 any conclusion respecting its distance, &c. which you may de- 

 duce from the observations of others*." 



IV. Trom Holyhead. From the Illustrated London News of 

 August 21, 1852, by George F. Lyster, Esq. 



" I beg to call your attention to an extraordinary meteoric 

 appearance in the heavens, which occurred in this neighbourhood 

 on the evening of the 12th instant. At 9^ 20>" p.m. (Greenwich 

 time) my attention was suddenly attracted by what appeared to 

 me to be a peculiarly vivid flash of lightning; and on turning 

 towards the S.S.W., the direction whence it came, I saw a mag- 

 nificent body of meteoric light, the colour being a most beautiful 

 aiul intense blue. 



" It occupied at least a fourth part of the visible heavens, in- 

 clining towards the earth at an angle of -i5°, and lasted for 30 

 or 40 seconds, gradually diminishing in width to a narrow streak 

 of light, the length remaining the same as when I first saw it. 

 Just previous to its fading away, it became flickering and wavy. 

 The sky at the time was clear and cloudless, and a fresh breeze 

 blowing from the N.N.W." 



The bearing S.S.W. in this account is evidently erroneous, as 

 the meteor was situated nearly S.E. of Holyhead. 



V. From Pembroke. Samuel A. Good, Esq., favoiu-ed me 

 with the following information : — 



"On the 12th of August, at precisely 9'» 20'", I was walking 

 along a street, when a bright flash, as of lightning, attracted my 

 notice. The houses on my left-hand (cast) prevented me from 

 seeing the meteor itself; but when I came to an opening after 

 a few steps, I observed just above 6 Andromeda; a wavy bright 

 cloud of a phosphoric apjjearance. It gradually faded away, 

 and at the same time appeared as if carried on by the wind at 

 the rate of the other clouds. It finally disappeared after passing 

 under the star I have mentioned. There were a good many 

 shooting stars the same evening, which at intervals was very 

 cloudy. 



" Two or three persons who saw it at first inform me that it 

 appeared like a large ball, which biu'st and extended itself in the 

 form described above." 



* Whilst this account was passing through the press, tlie following ad- 

 ditional communication was received from Mr. Grey : — " Since I received 

 your letter, I have been trying to discover some one in this neighbourhood 

 ^vho saw the meteor of August 12 at its first appearance, hut I am sorry to 

 say without success ; however, my impression is, that its altitude and azi- 

 muth at that time were respectively in or about 14° or 15° and 81°. Using 

 these angles of altitude, the former gives a distance of /I and the latter of 

 75 miles." 



