H.-A. Macten'tn Shoottag- Starin:Novembér, 1808 | 
20. The great display — was looked for with such general 
interest both in this coun try and in England was witnessed in 
Europe early on the morning of the 14th. 
At Valentia, Ireland.—The following is an extract from a letter 
from Dr. B. A. Gould, who was at Valentia, Ireland, engaged 
in determining the longitude of American stations by means of 
the Atlantic cable. 
“ At 125 30™ (Greenwich time) meteors were so abundant that I caused 
the telegraphic staff to be aroused, in confident expectation of a ‘mete- 
oric shower.’ From this time to about 2? 25™ a.m, the sky was quite 
clear (except for six or seven minutes), not more than one-fourth part 
being at any one time obscured. At 1” a.m. the sky was brilliant with 
meteors of every degree of brightness, from the 4th magnitude to 15 
diameter, and the brilliancy of Jupiter, The largest ones, and certainly 
there were fifteen or twenty such, were as brilliant and large as a ship’s 
rocket at half a mile distance. 
‘The comparatively slow and uniform movement of most of them, their 
long bright — amy pure white light, presented a strong resemblance 
to a flight of r 
“The center “of Sento was in Leo, then not high in the east. The 
radiant as not well defined, but a locus of probably" a degree and a half 
in diameter. I think that I observed ten or twelve of which the pate 
aid of a friend, who faced south while I faced north, I counted 203 dur- 
ing the 90 seconds between 1" 9™ 08 and 1" 10™ 308. Ten minutes later 
the epee seemed to have much diminished. 
a “ At 15 38™ there were not more than 65 or 70 to the na pas and 
frequently iy or six tpg would pass without any being see’ 
“Between 1" 45™ 158 and 1” 46™ 158 (1™) only 23 were seen. 
66 . iv~ J) §) 0 (2 sm. } “ 
“6 1 58 Oo ere i (3™  Seamay Gd “a 
“ At 2" 15™ they seemed scarcely more numerous than on an ordinary 
August night.” 
21. In Exeter, England.—Mr. J. T. Tucker, of Exeter, in a 
letter to the writer states that he counted 954 meteors between 
2 4 and 1" 30™ a.m. of Nov. 14t 
