322 Notice of several Meteors. 



The Eastern Argus, printed at Portland, state of Maine, 

 $ays the meteor was seen in that town at a quarter past 10 

 o'clock in the evening of the 9th, in a direction nearly west, 

 its magnitude nearly that of the moon — its brilliancy very 

 great — and when it exploded, scintillations, not unlike those 

 of sky rockets, were scattered northerly and southerly. 



The same meteor was seen in various places East of New- 

 York. The Bridgeport Courier says, "its size appeared 

 (to be that of a large artificial globe, and moved with great 

 velocity in a direction from northeast to southwest, leaving 

 a trail of immense size and peculiar brightness." 



It is remarked by a Boston Editor that this meteor must 

 have been very large and the sound at its separation louder 

 than the loudest thunder, as its explosion was not only seen 

 in many opposite places, but heard from Portland, in the 

 state of Maine to 60 miles west of Albany. 



A writer in the Albany Daily Advertiser in commenting 

 on Mr. Doty's statement mentioned above, says; 



" Eight minutes was the time between its appearance and 

 the report of its explosion, its distance from him must have 

 been about one hundred miles^ for sound travels about thir- 

 teen miles in a minute. From these data we may calculate 

 that the place where it was vertical must be about seventy 

 miles from Albany in a northwesterly direction, and that its 

 size was near a mile in diameter ; but to enable us to calcu- 

 late with greater accuracy its height, dimensions, and the 

 tracts of country over which it passed, observations at place? 

 to the west as well as to the east of it are necessary." 



Remark by the Editor, December 9th, 1822. 



The following communication from Professor Dean of 

 the University of Vermont has been recently received, and 

 we give it in connexion with the preceding communications 

 to which it bears an important relation. 



To the Editor of the American Journal of Science. 

 Sir, 



The meteor of last March (1822) has ceased to be the 

 subject of general conversation, but it is not the less inter- 



