June 12, ISM.l 



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NIGHT SKY FOR JUNE (First Map of Pair), 



Showing the heavens as they appear at the followinj; Lours : — 



June 3 at lOi o'cloct. 

 June 7 at 10 o'clock. 



June 11 at Of o'clock. 

 June 14 at Oi o'clock. 



June 18 at 9^ o'clock. 

 June 22 at 'J o'clock. 



finding this apparent fire to be perfectly harmless, I began 

 to examine its peculiarities. I found tha'' t/ds shoiver of 

 Jire consisted of glohules varying in size generally from a 

 pea to a hazeUnut, vnlh liere and there a few as large as 

 pigeons' and kens' eggs, and one in ji(irticular vihiclt, fell 

 about tvienty feet from me ih-as nearly the size of my 

 fist. They all came down in a regular uniform slanting 

 direction from south to north at an ant;le of about 30° 

 from the perpendicular, not crossing each other, but 

 falliwj gently until within about five or six feet of 

 the earth, then bursting and throwing i ut in a hori- 

 zontal direction towards the north a .stream of light, 

 comprising all the prismatic colour.^, the brightest and 



most beautiful that can be conceived, and then vanishing 

 gradually. The largest before mentioned I noticed in 

 j)articular, which in its relative position from me had a 

 dark forest in the barkgroimd, whence I could observe it 

 to greater advantage, and frinn its size was slower in de- 

 scending, bursting, and vanishing. This one threw out a 

 bright belt or stream of many colours, apparently a foot 

 broad, perfectly horizontal, nlioiil eight feet from the eartil, 

 reaching entirely across a meadov) until it touched the woods, 

 the space being there hy measurement 175 yards ; it then 

 vanished very gradullj', occu|iying from four to five seconds 

 from first to last I continued watching the phenomenon 

 until the day breaking rendered them indistinct, and at 



