370 On the Meteors of 13th November. 
have described ; and about the time when the morning light was be- 
ginning to make the fainter phenomena invisible, I could observe ma- 
ny of a faint but decided green. 
‘There was a point a few degrees south and east of the zenith, 
which was evidently the directrix of all the apparent motions; an 
every luminous body, without exception, of those associated in the 
phenomenon, obeyed a regimen in relation to that point, which was 
such that every line and track of motion if continued backward, 
would have passed, as nearly as the eye could discern, through that 
specific point. In the vicinity of that point, a few star-like bodies 
rericat and descended down In these, the aspect might be 
compared to “ak of ee pas driven swiftly athwart the sky by 
a strong wint 
voted exclusively to that : eeeaieag but in the variety of as- 
pects which solicited notice, I did in fact only make a rapid and 
general determination ; the result of which was to place it between 
the stars in the breast and shoulders, and those in the head of the 
Lion. As a definite point, I should select as near the truth a small 
star in the Lion’s neck, which I find on the celestial globe at the bi- 
section of a line from « to y, and also nearly at the bisection of a line 
from y. to 7 of that constellation; and I should call the time of the obser- 
vation half past five o’clock mean time. ‘This point then lay at about 
the elevation of the magnetic pole, but too far east of the meridian. I 
trust that some one who had earlier and better opportunity for accu- 
rate observation, may have made the same determination with pre- 
cision. ‘This point, of which mention has been made, cannot be sup- 
posed to have been a real part of space from which the luminous 
bodies actually proceeded, but the vanishing point of sight for mo- 
tions which were truly or nearly parallel. If a multitude of bodies 
moving in parallel directions had entered the earth’s atmosphere 
from that quarter of the heavens which has been pointed out, and be- 
come luminous by contact with the atmosphere, and had been dissi- 
pated by motions through it, they must have presented the appar- 
ent motions, very nearly, if not exactly, as those which I observed. 
The supposition is not suggested asa possible explanation of the facts, 
but as a guide to the conceptions of such as did not witness the 
ogra and may desire to have a clear idea of what they were. 
or, in the case supposed, if any He body were moving di- 
