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government of Ecuador, to my knowledge, would be very glad to codp- 
erate in such a matter, though they have themselves not the means. 
Why cannot it be done? 
2. the Meteor of July, 1856 ; by Tuomas M. Perers.—On Tues- 
day, the 8th day of July, 1856, I was on the road leading from Moulton, 
(Ala.) to Columbus, (Miss.), about six miles south of Thorn-Aill in Han- 
cock County, Alabama. At about six o’clock in the evening, my friend, 
B. R. Delgraffenreid, Esq., who was with me, called my attention to a 
remarkable meteor, then falling. When I turned my eyes upon it, it was 
Just too late to get a distinct view of it; but my friend, who saw it 
burst through the concave of the heavens, at a point near midway 
between the zenith and the horizon, and some thirty or thirty-five degrees 
west of south from our place of observation. It seemed to fall almost 
perpendicularly downwards, with a slight.curving to the eastward. From 
the points of first appearance, it descended with great swiftness, until it 
teached a stratum of reddish-dun colored cloud, at about ten degrees 
above the horizon. In this cloud it seemed to disa per. Above the 
cloud, into which it seemed to fall, it left a long train of whitish smoky 
lanty of the margins of the train suggest, that it may have been occa- 
Sioned by some gaseous substance projected forward from the body of 
the meteor with considerable velocity, against the opposing atmosphere, 
ds, (upwards in this instance), and outwards, in 
the mouth of a cannon. These 
Tepeated from the top to the bottom of the train. | \ 
train was, apparently, about four inches at the top, and about eight or nine 
0 I or i 
Was Vividly distinct in all its outlines, and remained visible about fifteen 
sunutes, by my watch. At last, it began to disappear from the top, 
cowntwards, and seemed to fade away without dispersing, as if it had been 
it stood 
a 
: Was no appearance of the meteor’or its singular train below the 
Cloud, into which it seemed to fall. There was no noise of explosion 
heard, th 
“lm-and fair, though in the direction of the meteor it was cloudy ; 
1 learned afterwards, it rained heavily in the afternoon of that day, 
ition of this meteor from our point of observation, indicated that 
m, Ala, Nov. 25th, 1856. 
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