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Silliman and Kingsley on the Weston Meteor of 1807. 3 
The only thing which seemed of any importance beyond this 
statement, was derived from Mr. Elihu Staples, who said, that 
when the meteor disappeared, there were apparently three suc- 
cessive efforts or leaps of the fire-ball, w sa grew more dim at 
every throe, and disappeared with the 
h teor was seen as far south as a NUE York ; and the 
explosion was heard, and a tremulous motion of a earth per~- 
ceived, between forty and fifty miles north of Wes From 
the various accounts which we have received of jen appears 
of this body at different places, we are inclined to believe, that 
the time between the disappearance and report, as estimated 
by Judge Wheeler, is too little, and that a minute is the least 
time which could have intervened. Taking this, therefore, for 
the time, and the apparent diameter of the body as only half 
that of the ae moon, its real diameter could not be much less 
than 300 fee 
pene to detail the consequences which fol- 
lowed the explosion and apparent extinction of this luminary. 
We allude to the fall of a number of masses of stone in several 
places, principally within the town of Weston. The places 
which had been well nsServidiied at the period of our investiga- 
tion were six, The most remote were about 9 or 10 miles dis- 
tant from each other, in a line differing little from the course — 
the meteor. It is therefore probable that the successive m 
fell in this order, the most northerly first, and the most eonthaely 
last. We think we are able to point out three principal places 
where stones have fallen, corresponding with the three loud can- 
non-like reports, and with the three leaps of the meteor, obser- 
ved by Mr. Staples. There were some circumstances common to 
the explosions had ceased, a loud whizzing or roaring noise in 
the air, observed at all the sie and so far as was ascertained, 
at the moment of the xcited in some the idea of a 
tornado ; in Ree of a large eannon-shot i in rapid motion, and 
it filled all w of some impend- 
ing cciatohe In every 1 instance, ‘immediately after this, was 
heard a sudden and abrupt noise, like that of a ponderous body 
* From subsequent information it appears that this meteor was seen n in the east: 
ern part of Connecticut, in New Jersey, in the interior of the state of New York, 
as high up, at least, as Rutland, in "Vermont. 
It was stated by Professor Day, in a discourse before the eng shs sags Academy, 
that a gentleman’ who was riding in Colchester in Connecticut. $ be oy s about 
miles east of A esigee saw this meteor agp it Was passing in 15 or de- : 
dag Hetero about one- e-half as ance: as that Jaa 
nary. was justly remarked by Mr. Day. ae if at this reagent it had this appa- 
port Gendt its real diameter must have bee n 1200 or 1300 fi nh gy or, about a quar-— 
bo of a mile; but, as the apparent diameter was not taken with al trument, | 
y estimation, it was not supposed that this conclusion was perfectly exact. It is 
evident, ty ab Lea jou the meteor must have been much higher, w ane 
