On the Meteors of 13th November. 391 
At Macon, Geo.—One of considerable size was observed to fall 
it was believed as near to the earth as one hundred feet, when it en- 
tered a column of smoke from a chimney, and immediately explo- 
ded i oe several parts. (Georgia Messenger.) 
vagara Falls:—In many. instances, the meteors appeared 
like laxe balls of fire, and some were as large as an eighteen 
pound cannon ball. ea H. A. Parsons.) 
At Union Town, Penn.—Not more das two of the meteors ob- 
served by me left behind them  vapory' matter: one of ‘these pro- 
ceeded towards the north, the other towards the northwest. The 
vapor did not differ in appearance from the light fleecy clouds fre- 
quently visible in the heavens, and it gradually melted away being 
borne along in the meanwhile towards the east, in which direction 
there was a genile movement of the air. (J. B. M. Union Town 
Democrat.) See descriptions. 
(5.) Of the third variety, the following = remarkable examples. 
At Poland, Trumbull County, Ohio.—A luminous body was dis- 
tinctly visible in the north east, for more than an hous The Hon. 
Calvin Pease informs me that he discovered it at 4 o’clock, near the 
star Alioth, in Ursa Major ; that it was then very brilliant in the form 
of a pruning hook, and apparently twenty feet long and eighteén in- 
ches broad, and that it gradually settled towards the horizon, ' until it 
disappeared. I first saw it at 5 o’clock, when it resembled a new 
oon, two or three hours high, shining through a cloud, wet fifteen 
ratnaies afterwards, no vestize of it could be seen. (Dr. J red P, 
Kirtland’s letter to Prof. Silliman.) 
At Niagara Falls.—They were seen as ‘early as two o’clock, and 
soon after, a large luminous body, like a square table, was seen nearly 
in the zenith, remaining for a time nearly stationary; and from this 
were emitted large streams of light. (Mr. Horatio A. Parsons’s letter 
to Prof. Silliman.) 
_ Off Charleston, S. C. We learn.also that:& meteor’ of exttaors 
dinary size, was observed at sea to course the heavens for a great 
length of — and then explode with the noise of a cannon. (Charles- 
ton Courier.) 
Remarxs.—The following points appear decent of particular 
notice. 
That according to Mr. Palmer, (See p. 385.) the balls which 
in their descent, terminated at nearly the same altitude, had trains 
of nearly the same length; that the number increased, but the trains 
became shorter at higher altitudes; and that the light was reddish at 
the lower altitudes, and pale or white at the higher. 
That the trains presented to different spectators, at first, the 
figure of two very acute cones placed hase to base; but their figure 
afterwards became tortuous, and they finally uae themselves i into 
small clouds or nebule, which took the direction of the win 
