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In Appendix No. V are given in classified arrangement the 

 observations relating to the appearance of the body and its train. 



Besides Chart No. 1, already referred to, we also give in 

 Chart No. 2* the four sheets of the large Post-Route Map of the 

 State of Virginia and parts of adjacent States, on which are un- 

 derscored, in red, the stations from which reports bave been 

 received. 



PETER PARKER, 



CLEVELAND ABBE, i- Committee. 



W. L. NICHOLSON, 



Washington, 7 April, 1877. 



JE,l 



APPENDIX No. II. 



ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS AND LETTERS. 



In the following abstracts of the letters and other documents 

 that have been received relative to the Meteor of Christmas 

 Eve, the phenomena that were observed have been classified as 

 follows: — 



1. Time of occurrence. 



2. Duration of the visible flight of the meteor, 

 o. Apparent bearing. 



4. Apparent altitude. 



5. Apparent brightness, size, and color. 



6. Interval between the light and the sound. 

 Y. Nature of the sound. 



The pages quoted in these abstracts refer to the collection of 

 original letters in manuscript Appendix No. I. 



1. 



H. C. Ryder, Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, pp. 89 to 

 •93, and 115. 



3. Disappeared at south, 51^° west ; true bearing. 



4. Started at 30°; path inclined 20 or 30° downward to the 



right; ended at 5°. 



5. White ; much brighter than the moon. 



^' I Saw no explosion, heard no sound. 



* This chart reduced follows page 161. The stations from which re- 

 ports have been received are marked upon it. 



