380 On the Meteors of 13th November. 
10. Phenomena as observed near Jugusta, Georgia, Lat. 33° N. 
Lon. 82° W., (from the Georgia Courier.) 
“ Mr. Editor,—To those of your peeniees who had not the good 
fortune to witness the late meteoric phenomenon, and perhaps, have 
not seen a detailed account of that grand siento Pree following re- 
marks of an eye witness may prove interesting. 
The place from which we made our observations, was about 60 
miles S. W. by W. from this city. The day had been very warm for 
the season of the year, and the atmosphere thick and smoky until 
sunset, after which, the thermometer = very rapidly and the sky 
became perfectly clear. At about m, the shooting stars first ar- 
rested our attention, increasing both i in number and brilliancy until 
30 minutes past 2 a Mm, when one of the most splendid sights perhaps 
that mortal eyes have ever beheld, was opened to our astonished 
aze 
From the lest ‘mentioned hour until day light the appearance of 
the heavens was awfully sublime. It would seem as n 
worlds from the infinity of space were rushing like a whirlwind to our 
globe—then it would appear as if the firmament was. ay melting 
with heat, and the stars descending like a snow fall to the earth—un- 
til again some fiery sphere would start from its orbit blazing and hiss- 
ing through the vast expanse, sweeping worlds from their places, and 
hurling whole systems from existence in its mad career. 
These bodies seemed generally to shoot in lines from the zenith to 
every point of the horizon, crossing there however, sometimes at 
different angles from 5° to 45°, the greater number seeming to fall in 
a space of the horizon embraced by 15° north and south of north 
east. The light shown, was different by different meteors, and 
sometimes different by the same meteor. In some the ball or star 
gave out a pale blue or pale green light, while the streak or tail left 
would be orange or intensely white, and so on, exhibiting all the pris- 
matic colors in instant changes ; occasionally one would dart forward 
leaving a brilliant train three or four inches in width, which would 
gradually widen into a cloud three or four feet in apparent width, and 
remain visible, some of them nearly fifteen minutes. At other times 
some would appear and pass through an arc of 5° or 6°, when they 
would explode, and the new formed meteors possess all ‘the features 
of the original one, passing very nearly in the same << to dif- 
ferent elevations from the horizon and become extinc 
ut by far the most brilliant one which we saw aoa at a few 
minutes past five in the morning, and seemed to announce by its 
splendor the finale of this grand exhibition of fire works in the heav- 
ens. It seemed to pursue as near as we could judge a course le 
8. E. to N. w., the ball being apparently five or six inches in diam 
ter with a train of from thirty to forty feet in length ; the latter media 
