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(3.) They went off in radii from one center in all directions, but 
more frequently, and in greater numbers to the S. E. and N. E. 
(Hartford Tdapetideet Press. 
(4.) ‘They all appeared to shoot from one and the same center to- 
wards the circumference of a circle. This center was in the cluster 
of stars called the sickle, about the middle of its bend, and about 6° 
or 7° SSetatbenaat'4 of the star Regulus. (F. L., Union Town, 
Penn. ocrat. 
(5.) According to my observation the radiant point \ was directly in 
the bay (Mr. James Sperry, Henrietta, N. Y. 
6.) The central part seemed to stand nearly over our vee 
from whence, (some further off,) issued thousands of small meteors 
similar to stars, sige in all directions towards the horizon. 
(Wooster, Ohio, Telegraph.) 
(7.) Capt. Parker, of the ship Junior, then in ‘the Gulf of Mex- 
ico, saw a radiant point in the north east, from which the motions of 
all the meteors were directed. (Mr. Alex. C. Twining. 
(8.) See among the general prone pb Nos. 1.3. 4. 5. 6.8. 10. 
Rite —This apparent radiation from a common center, is 
mentioned much more uniformly in places northward of the City « of 
Washington, than in places southward of that city, where the meteors 
are generally represented as flying in all parts of the heavens; yet the 
same fact is recognized in the accounts from Augusta and Macon, in 
the state of Georgia, and from Kingston, Jamaica, at which places 
the meteors are said to proceed from the zenith. Dr. Smith, (see p. 
$79.) thinks it could not have been true of the phenomenon as exhib- 
ited in the western part of N. Carolina; and had it been as conspicuous 
there as here, or had it even been discoverable there at all, it is difficult 
to see how it could have escaped so acute an observer. On the 
northern limits also, to which our information has extended, as at 
Concord, N. H. and Buffalo, N. Y., the regularity of descent from a 
common center seems to have been interrupted, since at these pla- 
ces some of the meteors rose, while others fell, and others moved in 
all directions. © 
Those who are unaccustomed to astronomical observations, are 
apt to assign a wrong position to the zenith from the difficulty of 
looking directly upwards. The error frequently amounts to ten or 
fifteen degrees, a fact which will account for discrepancies in the 
statements of different observers of the radiant point in question, one 
placing it at the zenith, and another fifieen degrees southeasterly 
from it, where the time and pace: of observation were nearly the 
same. 
