Shad 
it ubout twenty degrees, these angles being measured approximate 
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the pomtding portion had extended upward, or, as expressed by one 
observer, ‘it appeared to draw up its —<_ like a serpent.” At 94 3m 
the preceding portion had curved quite a 
“* During these changes the meteor had anind a bright, conspieiinal 
object, some-ten degrees in length, lying nearly horizontal. It was ex- 
congregation of minute bright clouds, of the formation usually denomi- 
nated cirrocumuli.’ 
gb . it had assumed a figure resembling the appearance of 
ay’s c 
Hope, January 28, 
meteor now commenced a slow, regular motion, passing about 
a depres below the star alpha Arietis, towards a point somewhat above 
the planet Saturn, at the same time rotating apparently on a point 
direetion” to the nucleus of the explosion, ‘and expanding in every 
irection.” 
it Fpositintied to exhibit a well defined boundary until past ten o’clock, 
wider een under observation more than an hour 
« From a communicated by Hon. Wm. Mitchell, of Nan- 
‘ket, combined with our own, we have ascertained that the vertical 
height of this ee above the surface of the earth was about fifty 
miles, nthe its distance from Cambridge one hundred miles in a north- 
east direct 
= load sciicie an account of the same phenomenon as seen by Mr. J. 
oadley. 
** On leaving Springfield this evening, (Sept. 30th, 1850,) in the . 
cars, at 8" 51™, (Boston time) for Wor reester, I opened the window for 
the purpose of casting a glance at Algol, when my attention was ar- 
rested by a bright ball of fire, sae a me color, moving rapid! 
horizontal direction, from east to t, leaving a straight, clear cae of 
yellowish light, and exploding os ave corruseations y instanta- 
neous impression ‘was that it was a piece of artificial fire- works, like a 
flying oe quite near, and perhaps twenty feet from the ground 
but a moment’s observation showed that it suffered no parallax from our 
mea sad increasing motion, and revealed it to be a meteor. It was 
then 85° 537, a nd the moment of exlinction.could not have been half 
a minute earlie 
thread-like, for four minutes, and occupie th e same apparent position : 
in the heavens, - : from the Pleiades, westerly oe de- 
grees, to the head of Cetus, parallel to the horizon, and elevated from 
with a pocket rule as a sector. “ 
At 84 57™ the line of light began to curve upward near the west end, 
as though that part were wafied upward by a current of air; and 
met as 0m by Sir John Herschel, at the Cape of Good. 
836. 
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