340 On the Meteors of 13th November, 1833". 



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or 40° of altitude in the due east. After this he saw three other me- 

 teors, still more brilliant; but their trains vanished speedily. 



Through Mr. Tomlinson, we have also been favored with the ob- 

 servations of an intelligent young man from Kent, Mr. Knibloe, who, 

 attracted by the light of the meteor, looked up and saw it a little east of 

 S., high up towards the zenith, and in the form of a cloud — having only 

 so much train as to give a faint impression that its course was north- 

 easterly. It will be seen, in the result, that Mr. Knibloe stood very 

 near the spot to which the meteor's flight was directed, and at which 

 the meteor would be seen without motion. Inasmuch as the radiant 

 lay 22° from the zenith, and the body had a little apparent motion* 

 northward, we will call the elevation 70°. By a traveller on the road 

 a little east of Sharon this meteor was seen, in the south east, moving 

 west of south, with a long train. 



Mr. Merrick, at Middletown, in company with Lieut. Mather and 

 others, saw this meteor towards morning, shooting down in a path 

 30° long, at the utmost, that made an angle of 10° or 20° with the ver- 

 tical and lay from a little S. of W. to a little N. of W. Its time of 

 flight was estimated by recollection at between two and three sec- 

 onds. It was noticed at the time that its apparent velocity was the 

 same with that of the other smaller meteors that were moving around 

 it. It left a train, through two thirds of its flight, which contracted in 

 length and expanded in breadth — assumed a serpentine form — and 

 finally collected into a cloud which remained visible about ten min- 

 utes : — during that time, it moved 8° or 10° in a line nearly towards 

 the zenith — a direction opposite to that in which the meteor had been 

 moving, and nearly in the direction of the wind. The circumstances in 

 which this meteor was seen to disappear, fix the azimuth of the place 

 within very narrow limits. It was W. 3° N. by the best estimation. 

 Its altitude, when disappearing, was judged to be 35° to 40° ; we may 

 call it 37 J°. 



Capt. Seymour, as already mentioned, saw this meteor, just before 

 the dawn. His eye caught it first in the due N. E., a little lower than 

 the radiant, and it appeared as large as a twelve pound rocket. It moved 

 in a descending direction perhaps 10° towards the N. — leaving a train 

 of bright white light, inclined to the horizon about 26°. It burst at 



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an elevation which, as Capt. S. pointed it out, was 29°; and threw out 

 brilliant sparks on every side. With a watch in hand, Capt. S. ob- 

 served the train to continue straight four minutes. It then began to 

 waver in the middle and coiled up into a cloud, as bright as the trail* 



