A 



■JOURNAL. 



OF 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY 



AND 



THE ARTS. 



NOVEMBER, 1309. 



ARTICLE I. 



Account of some luminous Meteors feen during a Thunder 

 Stonn. In a letter from James Staveley, Esq. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON, 

 SIR, 



JtvETIRING rather late to bed last night, ahd throwine a 



° 3 6 Appearances 



tip the window to admire the beauty of the lightning, I was of the sky in a 

 struck with the appearance of the iky, the grandeur and thunder stona 

 singularity of which I never remember to have seen equalled. 

 The time was about half past one o'clock. Considering that 

 facts of this kind-are at all times acceptable to the meteoro- 

 logist, and that this may perhaps serve to elucidate some of 

 the mysteries of that science yet unfathomed,if you have, no 

 better account of the phenomenon, may I offer this for a 

 place in your valuable Journal ? 



The whole surface of the heavens seemed covered with one described, 

 unbroken mass of black pitchy cloud, in which the very 

 vivid flashes of lightning, that almost instantaneously suc- 

 ceeded each other, showed no break ; and from which, 



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