360 Star-Showers of Former Times. 
1122. Indictione decimaquinta Stelle innumerabiles vise sunt 
cadere per totum orbem pridie .... Aprilis hora matutina— 
Chron. Fosse. Nove, in Muratori, Rer. It. Ser. t. vii, p. 868. 
(28.) A.D. 1199, ‘‘At the beginning of the year [596 of the " 
Hegira, commencing Oct. 22, 1199] the stars were seen coursing 
through the heavens, &c.” See quotation from Abd-allatifs Ac- 
count of Egypt, under No. (17.) 
(29.) A. D. 1202. In the year 599, on the night preceding 
Sunday the last day of the month Moharrem, [October 19, A. D, 
1202,] the stars rushed across the heavens from east to west, and 
glided to the right and left, like grasshoppers in.a field. This 
continued until dawn. “The inhabitants cried out with terror, 
and fervently implored the mercy of the Most High. A similar 
occurrence happened in the year of the holy mission of the Proph- 
et, [A. D. 611,] as well as in the year 241, [A. D. 855.] - 
“En Van 599, dans la nuit du dimanche, dans le dernier jour 
du Muharrem, les étoiles s’élancérent au ciel dans une direction” 
de Vest & louest, et s’échappérent ca et la tant a droite qu’a 
gauche, comme des sauterelles sur un champ. Ceci dura jusqu’a 
Vaurore. Les hommes jetérent des cris d’épouvante et i ore- 
rent a grand eris la misericorde du 'Tres-Haut. La méme chose, 
au reste, avait eu lieu dans année de Ja sainte mission du Proph- 
éte, ainsi que dans l'année 241."—Soyuty’s Hist. of Cairo, fol. 
342, quoted by M. Fraehn, (as above.) First cited in part by Von 
Hammer, Comptes. Ren. Acad. Sci. 1837, 1, 294. ; 
“Au commencement de l’an 599 on vit 4 Bagdad les étoiles 
tomber ¢a et la, et comme des sauterelles s’élancer d’un liew dans 
un autre. Cela dura jusqu’a Paurore. Les hommes pousserent 
des cris et implorérent par des priéres le Dieu tout puissant.”— 
Scheby, in T. Duwel el-Islam. Cod. Acad. Sci. No. 254. OF 
ted by M. Fraehn. gat 
“Dans Vannée 599 on vit un mouvement d’oscillation des 
étoiles pendant toute la nuit du dernier [jour] de Muharrem.”— 
_ Haddschy Chalfa, Chronological Tables. Cited by M. 
L Institut, No. 252. 
(30.) A. D. 1243, July 26. “In this year, on the 7th of the 
Kalends of August, the night was most serene and the air eX 
ceedingly pure, so that the milky way was as manifest as in the 
clearest winter night, although the moon was in her eighth day: 
And to our surprise, stars were seen falling from heaven; swiftly 
