340 On the Meteors of 13th November, 1833. 
or 40° of altitude im the due east. After this he saw three other me~ 
teors, still more brilliant; but their trains vanished speedily. 
Through Mr. Tomlinson, we have also been favored with the ob- 
servations of an intelligent young man from Kent, Mr. Knibloe, who, 
attracted by the light of the meteor, looked up and saw ita little east of 
S., high up towards the zenith, and in the form of a cloud—having only 
so much train as to give a faint impression that its course was north- 
easterly. It will be seen, in the result, that Mr. Knibloe stood very 
near the spot to which the meteor’s flight was directed, and at which 
the meteor would be seen without motion. Inasmuch as the radiant 
lay 22° from the zenith, and the body had a little apparent motion 
northward, we will call the elevation 70°. By a traveller on the road 
a little east of Sharon this meteor was seen, in the south east, moving 
west of south, with a long train. 
Mr. Merrick, at Middletown, in company with Lieut. Mather and 
others, saw this meteor towards morning, shooting down in a path 
30° long, at the utmost, that made an angle of 10° or 20° with the ver= 
tical and lay from a little 5. of W. to alittle N. of W. Its time of 
flight was estimated by recollection at between two and three sec- 
onds. It was noticed at the time that its apparent velocity was the 
same with that of the other smaller meteors that were moving around 
it. It left a train, through two thirds of its flight, which contracted in 
length and expanded in breadth—assumed a serpentine forra—and’ 
finally collected into a cloud which remained visible about ten min- 
utes :—during that time, it moved 8° or 10° ma line nearly towards 
the zenith—a direction opposite to that in which the meteor had been 
moving, and nearly in the direction of the wiad. ‘The circumstances in 
which this meteor was seen to disappear, fix the azimuth of the place 
within very narrow limits. It was W. 3° N. by the best estimation. 
Its altitude, when disappearing, was judged to be 35° to 40°; we may 
call it 373°. 
Capt. Seymour, as already mentioned, saw this meteor, just before 
the dawn. His eye caught it first in the due N. E., a little lower than 
the radiant, and it appeared as large as atwelve pound rocket. Itmoved 
in a descending direction perhaps 10° towards the N.—leaving a train 
of bright white light, inclined to the horizon about 26°. It burst at 
an elevation which, as Capt. S. pomted it out, was 29°; and threw out 
brilliant sparks on every side. With a watch in hand, Capt. S. ob- 
served the train to continue straight four minutes. It then began’ to 
waver in the middle and coiled up into a cloud, as bright as the traim 
