400 Meteors of November, 1868. 
to confirm or correct my impression that I still saw it, I asked 
the party whether it was actually visible. Nearly if not quite 
all of them (about a dozen persons) asserted that it was still 
one, if not longer, although other objects prevented us from 
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It was comparable for color an texture to the appearance of 
the nebula in Orion in a 12 inch glass. 
th 
sie, N. Y., the meteor was 
seen by Miss Colby of the Senior Class, and the following re- 
30%, a meteor started from the zenith, moved 
toward the west, burst south of J upiter, like a rocket, as- 
m 
stars of Cetus, whirled around completely, broke up into two 
pieces, the southern portion surrounding the upper star, and 
both fading in the mists of the horizon, The train was see0 
_ At Williamstown Mass.—The following notes of observa- 
tions by Messrs. B. % Gilman, W. D. eicic! and F. B. Wild- 
er, are furnished by Mr, W, §, Gilman, Jr. 
