326 On..the Meteors of 13th November, 1833. 
tice of persons even of eminent attainments, who with the best 
opportunities, were engaged, at the time, in scientific observations 
upon the phenomena. ‘The true reason why this remarkable fea- 
ture of the meteoric shower passed unobserved by so many is to 
be found in its high location—in the morning at least—lying above 
the range of natural and easy vision. ‘To the numerous testimo- 
nies in relation to the universal presence of this point of radiation which 
have been already brought together in previous numbers of this Jour- 
nal, from the most distant parts of the United States there need be 
added, in this place only one, that of the Rev. Mr. Wisner, Sec. 
of the board of Foreign missions who, travelling in North Carolina, 
between Wilmington and Fayetteville, saw the meteors in action 
all the night; and, near the morning, on leaving the stage saw the 
radiant directly overhead, as he judged it to be. We may call his 
lat. 835° N. the Ibon. 79° 30’ W. 
One phenomenon which was observed, an hour or two before the 
morning light, is too surprising and anomalous in its character to be 
admitted, did it not rest upon unquestionable evidence: The phenom- 
enon alluded to is the observed fixedness of the point of radzation 
in a particular part of the Constellation Leo,—both the radiant and 
the constellation moving round by the earth’s rotation and crossing 
the meridian, as if the two had risen and would set together. The 
reader is already apprised that a fact of this nature and purport was 
observed at New Haven, from a quarter before six A. M, to a quar- 
ter before seven, by Prof. Olmsted, who watched the point with this 
express determination in view,—that at Worthington, Ohio, it was 
observed for nearly two hours before the morning light, by Mr. J. L. 
Riddel, with a map of the constellation Leo before him, and (not to 
speak of other observations to the same effect continued during a 
shorter period) that it was observed at Emmettsburg, Md. for two 
hours by Prof. Aikin. To these testimonies collected by Prof. 
Olmsted, may be added that of Mr. D. A. Strong of Buffalo ; with 
whom the writer of this article was led to communicate by observing 
the remarks made under his name in the American Mechanics Mag- 
azine for January. Mr. Strong states that, at a quarter before six, 
he fixed the range of the point by means of an object in view ; but, 
returning to his range twenty minutes later, he found that the point 
had moved away to the west and was still near to a star of the sec- 
ond magnitude (probably 7 Leonis) where it had been at the time 
his range was taken. A very valuable testimony to the same effect has 
been derived from letters written by Mr. Frederick Merrick, a gentle- 
