of the meteor of 1807. 
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Observations at Wenham, Weston, and Rutland. 
Sometime after the appearance of the meteor, I went with Mr. 
Pickering to Mrs. Gardner’s house in Wenham, where she had ob- 
served the phenomenon. She informed us that on the morning of the 
fourteenth of December 1807, when she rose, she went towards the 
window of her chamber, which looks to the westward, for the purpose 
of observing the weather, according to her invariable practice for ma- 
ny years past. The sky was clear except a few thin clouds in 
the west. It was past day-break, and by estimation about half an 
hour ‘before sun-rise, or seven o’clock. The meteor was immediate- 
_ ly observed just over the southern part of the barn in her farm yard, 
nearly in front of the window; its disc was well defined, and it resembled 
the moon so much, that unprepared as Mrs. Gardner’s mind was for a 
phenomenon of that nature, she was not at first aware that it was 
not the moon, till she perceived it in motion, when her first reflection 
(to use her own words) was—where is the moon going to? The 
reflection however was hardly made, when she corrected herself, 
and with her eye followed the body with the closest attention throug- 
out its whole course. It moved ina direction nearly parallel to the 
horizon and disappeared behind a cloud to the northward of the house 
of Samuel Blanchard Esq. The true azimuth of the south part of the 
barn from the place of observation is N 107° 59’ W,, its altitude 3° 
25. The top part of the building is horizontal. The azimuth of 
Mr. Blanchard’s house is N. 148° 22) W. These buildings were 
useful in determining nearly the limits of the azimuths of the meteor. 
The azimuths were obtained by observing with an excellent theodo- 
lite, the difference of the azimuths of the sun and object, and finding 
the sun’s azimuth by his observed altitude. The same method was 
