324 Notice of several Meteors. 



withdrawing from the ball on the top of the church till 

 Capt. W. thought its apparent diameter was about equal 

 to that of the meteor, I measured it with a sextant and found 

 it 10'. 



Col. Lemuel Page, of Burlington, Vt. was in his back 

 yard at the time above mentioned, and had his attention ar- 

 rested by what is commonly called a shooting star, no way 

 differing from such as frequently appear in considerable 

 numbers. When he first saw it he thought it about in the 

 centre of the triangle formed by lines joining Mars, Castor, 

 and Procyon. It moved on southwesterly, passing a little 

 southeast of Procyon, and about one third of the way from 

 Procyon to Sirius it suddenly broke out in great splendor, 

 and continued its course flashing and sparkling, east of Si- 

 rius, and disappeared, apparently by extinction, near the 

 tops of some trees about twenty rods distant, considerably 

 above the mountains in that direction. Col. P. thought its 

 motion exactly perpendicular to the horizon. The disc 

 appeared to be nearly circular, and its diameter about 

 half the breadth of a certain chimney a few degrees east of 

 its apparent path. 



The place of this observation is in lat. 44° 28', Ion. 73° 

 15'. The azymuth of the meteor during its whole course 

 as determined both by the north pole and the globe, was 

 .bout south 34° west. Its altitude when first seen by Col. 

 P. was about 62°, the first coruscation when it became an 

 object of general attention, and when. Capt. W. first noticed 

 it 35°, and at its disappearance 6°. Its apparent diameter, 

 obtained by measuring the breadth of the chimney with a 

 sextant was 12'. 



The places of the meteor computed from these observa- 

 tions, by Dr. Bowditch's rule given in Mem. A. A. Vol. 3, 

 are, at its first brilliant coruscation, lat. 43° 54', Ion. 73° 

 47', about fifty -nine miles from Burlington and eighty-three 

 from Windsor, over the unsettled part of Essex county, N. 

 Y. about fifteen miles west of Crown Point, and at its dis- 

 appearance from Capt. W. lat. 42° 45', Ion. 74° 49', one 

 hundred and forty-four miles from Burlington and one hun- 

 dred and thirty-three from Windsor, over the western part 

 of Schoharie county, and its motion south 34° west. In 

 the former place according to Capt. W's. observation it 

 was about forty-one miles from (he earth, according to 



