3824 REPORT—1863. 
Isle in Dorsetshire. A globe of gas flame 16 feet in diameter would represent 
the light of this meteor according to the best accounts of its appearance. 
(15.) 1863, August 12th, 0* 3™ a.m. 
This meteor illuminated the scene at Weston-super-Mare in Somersetshire 
and at Ramsgate in Kent with a flash of diffused light. The path concluded 
from the observations is from 122 miles above Cobham (in N. lat, 51° 17’ 
W. long. 0° 25') to eighty-six miles above Havant (in N. lat. 50°51’, W. long. 
0° 54’). The visible flight of fifty-two miles was performed in rather more 
than one second of time, from the direction of 32° east of north, altitude 45°, 
terminating in a flash of brilliant light. 
III. Para or Mereor, 1862, November 27th, 5" 47™ p.m. 
Calculated from ten accounts of the foregoing Catalogue. 
Of ten observations, four lines of sight of the point of disappearance inter- 
sect each other, twenty-eight miles high above the mouth of the Seine in 
long. W. 0° 23', N. lat. 49° 49', viz. : 
Grantham ........ Meteor vanished. .4° E. from 8. ...... Altitude 7° 
Saltford ;. ... 8S satis Meteor vanished. .38° E. from 8....... Altitude 10°. 
Weston-super-Mare Meteor vanished. .45° KE. from 8....... Altitude 10°. 
Tunbridge ........ Meteor vanished. .15° W. from 8. ....Altitude 18°. 
A provisional path to this point of disappearance, from 7 fifty five miles 
above the mouths of the Scheldt (long. E. 3° 40', N. lat. 51° 21’), is ap- 
proached, in the following manner, by four other observations of the point of 
disappearance or explosion. The line of sight at— 
Sunderland (5° W. from S., alt. 3°) is 1° above, 11° onwards from disappear“. 
Clapham ..(11° 3 alt. 18?) 186° “sygegt Oe = ” 
Hawkhurst (14° » alt. 15°) is 5° below, O° 5 
Deal...... (26° wereinlt 20°) is3° . | sel eae sedis 55 
Difference .... 1° below, 3° onwards sp 
The place of disappearance is therefore determined by four intersecting 
observations, as well as by four other observations whose errors very nearly 
balance each other about the same point. 
The ten observations of the earlier portions of the meteoric track pass, with 
respeet to the provisional path, according to the following Table of errors. 
The observation of first appearance at— 
Before 
Distance. extinction. 
Miles, Miles. 
Sunderland ............ 320...(40° E. from S., alt. a ..is 10 miles below the track...... 210 
Grantham .....+...... 200:..(35° , FA 1°)...is 3 ,, above oF Gicctea 104 
Saltford) scssrses-<00ce ves 160...(68° 10% is 3 ,, below sna wteeee 88 
Weston-super-Mare...300...(Due E., alt. 10°) eotensces is 12 ,, » Sur Dhapstee 190 
Clapham <.:......se0e56 110...(28° E. from S., alt.17°)...is 3 4, 3 Pea ltase oat 65 
Tunbridge ....+...0266 90...(44° ,, »  38°)...is14  ,, above - ae 85 
Hawkhurst ........000: Sa(O. 5 ay) LOO) Seci8) 2, is x Se eran 50 
Deal)s:}.saao eee 70...(44°- 55 Mae htt om ee ae 125 
Cambridge .......++... T60s(09° |, >» ay 162s 2 A hae YS 22 
Broxbourve .........++ 120...(23° te jy 9?) eas) Us, . Hotbesies 83 
Seen from the point of explosion, these ten observations of first appearance 
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