Bi Aas TRE Sa tt a i eae a 
C. H. F. Peters—Discovery of a new Planet. 409 
Shain of a single vibration ; this was momentary. In 1 about 
the impression of a lateral motion from north to south. 
The table on which I had my elbow at the time seemed to recede 
about 14 to 2 inches, quiver an instant and return to its place : 
the beams of the houses ereaked like the timbers of a ship in 
heavy weather. Doors and windows flew open. Those who 
as clear and distinct as the movement of wind, but something 
like it. At the moment of the principal shock I looked at my 
watch and found the time to be ten minutes of ten—Bogota 
time. Time however, here, is not well renwlaiell as the observ- 
As earthquakes rarely have their centers in Columbia and are 
generally the result of action in Ecuador, it may be advisable 
Some nights since we noticed for two hours after sunset in 
the west, and nearly in the range of Tolima, a well defined 
column or line of light, on the Cordillera. This bore about due 
west. The character of the light I could not determine. 
Legation of the United States, Bogota, June 6, 1870, 
Arr. XLVIIL— Discovery of anew Planet, the 112th, named Iphi- 
cove 3 by Dr. C. H. F, Prrers, of the Litchfield Observa atory of 
annie Coleg. meer to the Editors, dated Clinton, Oneida 
big Oe 
Y., Sept. 22 
T nave the are to communicate the enn : observations 
"ee an asteroid discovered on the night of t 
Ham. Coll. m-t. App. A.R. Ape. Decl. 
: hm hm s ° 
ee. 15 30 — 1 2 35 +1016 (approx. by estimation). 
"20. 14 5728 115154 +10 13 30°83 10 comp. W. 08 1079. 
* Si 10-48 82 1112-24 +10 10 589 10 comp. Sohj. 374. 
The planet is about ~~ _—, papers the number esa 
and I have al already give wi site while that 
found on Aug. 14, (111), ri, ig poring Ate, with regard to o the 
simultaneous events in urope. 
As Snipa Sc1.—Seconp Sertzs, Vou. L, No. 150.—Noyv., 1870, 
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