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line of Rice, so directly as to present a star growing in the first mag- 
nitude and dying in the same spot. 
1849.—* On the night of August 3rd, 1849, I observed a meteor, 
which from its character and course of transit, I a as belon a 
to the annual display, having its maximum a out the 10th of the mont! 
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have desired. Mayor Blanchard and Dr. E. H. Barton sei to me, 
meteors which they saw on the 7th and 8th which evidently from om a 
scription belonged to the display. They represented them as ne 
and very brilliant, and coming from the northeast. fi: 
ugust 10th. The clouds cleared away at 104 Pp. m., and I com- 
menced observation from a position which Aone, ie a view of about 
one-tenth of the heavens 
This field of view was Sroiel the head of Perseus, to a point 15° be- 
a the zenith and laterally as far as one could see, one tree covering 
. E. portion of the field. From Perseus to the horizon, a heavy 
ae obscured the stars. 
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many meteors as a field 90° ae _ about an equal number with 
a field directly opposite or 180° dis 
here was no perceptible pric in ar point of divergence. Seve- 
ral of. the meteors ——e within the circle. Assuming that the 
center is midway between 7 Persei, and the sword cluster, a radius 
of 23° would clude al the intersections observed this year. This 
i has not moved in ele nyears.* ‘The pale, white color of the trains, 
4 or heb aaa across the sky, distinguish these from all other 
th—This evening I observed from 94 to 10 P. m. with the 
largest eine field of obseryation, and no moon. I saw three regu- 
rand five irregular meteors, and Mrs. F. in half an hour saw two reg- 
ular and three non-conformable meteors 
3 August 12th—Observed from 9 to 10 p. m. with a good field and 
a clear r ——~ and saw no meteors of a ¥ 
ae For several subsequent nights I continued easual observation but 
cc without ionic different from the last 
* y observations for some years past have appeared in different pa- 
re ‘and oe those of 1847, in the Sidereal Piorsengan, Some 
Old Carrollton, La., Oct. 15, 1849. 
of Sey observations fem 1837 to.1840 inches published i in the Transactions 
Pcs tneememas hical Society. 
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