400 Miscellanies. 
watched again in the S. for twelve or fifteen minutes, and counted ten 
more, all of which had the same course as those before seen.” 
Cincinnati, O. N. lat.. 39° 6'; W. long. 84° 27. Dr. John 
Locke has published the following notice in the Daily Gazette of Cin- 
cinnati, Aug. 14, 1841. “ Meteors.—Mr. Editor: Sears C. Walker, 
Esq., the astronomer of Philadelphia, has awarded to me the credit of 
having discovered in 1834, the radiant point of the meteors which ap- 
pear annually on or near the 10th of August. I had also discovered in 
1835, their periodical return. They have since been noticed by the 
philosophers of Europe. On the night of August 9, 1841, I observed 
the tracks of several, with an altitude and azimuth instrument, made 
for the purpose by Mr. James Foster, and found them to emanate from 
the same point, the constellation Perseus, and to converge to the same 
point, the constellation Lupus, as those of 1834. On the night of the 
10th, observing from the top of the Bazaar, from nine to ten o'clock, 
myself and assistant counted. sixty meteors, forty nine of which con- 
verged 8. W. towards Lupus, and were mostly brilliant, rocket-like, 
and left a phosphorescent track. The remaining twenty one moved 
in a variety of directions, were small, and had a short track not phos- 
phorescent. The forty nine parallel meteors had courses which 
mostly, if prolonged, would fall between @ and f of Perseus, and in the 
opposite point in Lupus, towards which last point they all proceeded. 
Two only had a considerable deviation, one tending to a point about 
20° E. of Lupus, and the other about 14° W. of the same. As myself 
and assistant could see only about one half of the visible heavens at 
once, the meteors may be reckoned at sixty per hour. The night was 
clear, a little hazy in the horizon ; mise: N. W., with a slight aurora in 
the north.” 
Had these observations been continued until 4 A. M., the meteors 
would undoubtedly have been found much more frequent. Between 
three and four A. M., they were probably five or six times as numerous 
as between ten and eleven of the evening previous. (See observations 
of Aug. 9, 1840; this Jour., Vol. xz, p. 329.) This being assumed, it 
results that on this occasion shooting stars were as abundant as 
ding anniversary, or at least six times beyond the yearly average: 
aeons Hain Sot 5 Aug. 25, 1841. E. C. Henrie 
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