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7 a strong red light over'the sky south of east was limited on the 
rth by a bright blue radiation. On the north of that was a yellowish 
rae radiation, then a radiation of blue~ light, and then a pale yellow 
light which extended quite across to the sage aondins: the northwest, 
at an Mannion of about 35°. This appearance was si 
time in this city. Is it not connected with the ‘ athe i 
_ Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1840. 
6. Shooting Stars in June.—The following extracts from various” 
sources, relating to shooting stars seen in different years about the 15th 
of June, are perhaps worthy of being published in connection, for the 
Fecore of calling the attention of observers to this period. 
. C, Herrick. 
ng my excursions that these igneous meteors are in general more common and 
luminous in some regions of the globe than in others; I have never beheld them 
s0 multiplied as in the vicinity of the volcanoes of the province of Quito, and in 
the part of the Pacific Ocean which bathes the volcanic coasts of Guatimala. The 
influence which place, climate, and seasons appear to have on the falling stars, 
distinguishes this class of meteors from those which give birth to stones that fall 
from the oy ae (azrolites,) and which probably exist exe the boundaries of our 
atmosphere.’ on Humboldt'’s Personal Ni » trans. by Helen M. M. Wil- 
liams, 3d ed. ies 1822-9, Vol. I, pp. 75, 76. 
__ The season which appears to be referred to in that part which I hare 
put in italics, is from the 15th to the 20th of June, 1799. Possibly the 
original i is somewhat exaggerated in the translation. 
“Q) “‘ We did not, in consequence, reach Koum Kalé, ull two in the morning, 
fot Sane 18, 1812,] when we found a boat waiting for us in which we went imme- 
y on board the frigate, [anchored off the entrance into the Dardanelles.] 
Dittiog our passage there, I was surprised at the number of meteors, called falling 
stars, which [ observed in the clear sky: we were only half an hour rowing to the 
ship, and in that time I counted nineteen.”—Journal < a& Tour in the Levant, by 
William Turner, Esq. Lond. 1820, 3 v. 8vo. » Vol. I »p-4 
(3.) “* Here in the torrid zone, the sea of an indigo ee eles, rolled in uniform 
— and began oe shine generally, and with. great splendor, during the night ; 
which we had hitherto seldom observed. This magnificent appear- 
ance, the frequent bghtaings and innumerable falling stars, together with the 
greater sultriness of the a air, seemed to indicate a higher degree of electricity in 
the nent, ” &¢.—Spic and Von Martius’s Travels in Brazil, 1817-20, trans. 
- Lond. ‘1824, Vol. I, p. “105. [Refers to a date between June 12 and 15, 
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