A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 75 
¥ ; Sea ERE Direction ; noting also 
gearance ; Train, if any,| Lengtho whether Horizontal, : 
and its Duration. Path Perpendicular, or ie pisos, 
Inclined. | 
ST tasth dévssscosvslisaustesesecess Descended towards|No report heard ......... W. A. Sanford. 
N.W. or N.E. 
e a sudden dischargel...... Pooeencealieucsecescsecersoecccgadaegana|soectescscccessenacsceosces ...|/Paragraph in the 
f fireworks. The ‘Ipswich Ex- 
ame burst suddenly, press.’ 
hrowing out brilliant 
parks like a rocket; 
he long tail of white 
ight endured two or 
hree seconds and then 
radually faded away. 
Ma IYI LIE A bi seicy daca eankas|tee teseacsaseeesancssagecen «...An explosion was heard Correspondent to 
ocket’s; its light a at Norwich like that} the ‘ Norwich 
right yellow, and of a rocket in the air.| Mercury.’ 
shen it burst, a mul- 
tude of sparks ap- 
eared to fall from the 
ody. 
meteor presented an|....... deessces|secsercens Ne ccccdeoetarevedees| ruavdrraeakasenasSeaVacnetess Writer in the 
xtraordinary blaze of ‘ Norwich 
ght, likened to a long Mercury.’ 
be of fireworks 
ghted at both ends, 
ach of which in turn 
roke into smaller 
arks. 
liant stream of fire (25°) ....,.'Flight longer than the 7/No such meteor seen in Correspondent to 
ke rocket-tail; left a Northern stars. London for ten years) the ‘ Times,’ 
minous track visible before. 
ny seconds. 
k of fire remained like)............... Mean direction from N.|-«+:ssssecesescsssesosecneeser Writer in the 
ail of a rocket, show- to S, ‘Times,’ 
g that a meteor had 
assed overhead, 
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n sailing an iHlami- 
ting power for nearly 
r Bitte, and then faded 
adually away. 
ense streak appeared 
the sky. Bright 
violet at. west end, 
wi changing through 
to vermilion and 
mine in the rest of 
W. to E.; perfectly ho- 
rizontal from Milky 
Way to the planet 
Mars. 
An observer considered'James Edmunds. 
it to be an unusual 
flash of lightning, 
as bricks could 
be counted on a wall 
sixty yards distant. 
Ellis Hall. 
