1. Red Snow near Boston in 1688. ‘“ Moreover it is credibly affirm- 
ed that in the Winter of the Year 1688, there fell a Red Snow, which 
lay like Blood on a spot of Ground, not many miles from Boston ; but 
the Dissolution of it by a Thaw, which within a few hours melted it, 
made it not capable of lying under the contemplation of somany Wit- 
nesses as it might have been worthy of. The Bloody Shower that went 
before the suffering of the ancient Britains from the Picts, (a sort of 
People that painted themselves like our Indians,) this Prodigy seemed 
a second Edition of.” . 
2. Explosion of a meteor near Boston, Oct. 1, O. S. 1689, “ And 
in the opinion of the most Critical Observers, throughout the Countrey, 
they were prodigious, or at least Uncommon Sights and Sounds, which 
on the first of October in the Year 1689, We were entertained withal, 
and not unlike those which Pliny mentions ‘as presages to the Cimbric 
Wars of old. For on that Day, in the Morning, while the Sky was too 
clear, to give us a suspicion of any thing like Thunder approaching, 
there suddenly Blazed a Flame, in the fashion of a Sword; which 
Blaze after a continuance, far longer than that of an ordinary Light- 
ning, expired in a smoke that gave Terror unto the Beholders of it. 
But hereunto succeeded immediately very terrible and Repeated Noi- 
ses, exactly like Volleys of small Shot, not without Reports like those 
of Great Guns superadded thereunto. This was a Scene which all 
the Colonies of this large Countrey and Thousands of People, at once 
were Spectators of, carrying in it, something, beyond the known Laws 
which ordinary Meteors are Conform’d unto. And herein was indeed 
One Circumstance, that gave Demonstration of something Rare and 
Great in this Occurrent; That persons which were Distant from one 
another many scores of Miles above an Hundred, yet at the same Time, 
both Saw and Heard the whole of what is now related ; and though I 
know, the Fancies of men applying themselves unto what is in the 
Clouds, are Fruitful even to a Ridicule ; strong imagination being able 
to find, even a Juno in them, and all that can be any where imagined ; 
the Shapes of Clouds, like the Clinks of Bells, humoring the Thoughts 
of any one; yet in This Accident, no small numbers of Gentlemen, 
who do not use to be imposed upon, but count no Trial severe enough 
to examine Things of this Nature with, were so surprised as with one 
mouth to say, The Finger of God was here! But with Him are left 
the Events of all. And in the mean time we are not ignorant, that 
¢ Nunquam Fatilibus Excanduit Ignibus Ather.’” 
6. Meteor of November 10th, 1841.—This meteor was observed in 
Boston and vicinity, by Mr. W. C. Bond and by his son; and also at 
New Haven, Conn., about 8 P. M., Nov. 10th, 1841. At Boston, the 
