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ae qu before the firet contact. Examined with a 4-inch tele- 
appeared of an orange-color, dotted with minute flakes of 
brifignt crimson, Another highly interesting fact is that four of 
the party saw an object which they confidently believed to be a 
star near the limits of the corona, in the neighborhood of the great 
protuberance, a osition described was that of 2 Cancri [mis- 
written 7 Leonis, in Astr. Nachr., xxiv, 375] which was seen ea 
ngto 
the keenness of the observer’s vision ; for its magnitude is bat 5°8, 
star visible to the avera ge eye on epee: nights 
Ir. Bardwell, besides observing the times of cont tact, casbehud 
for inferior planets, and with the same capil results which oth- 
ers 0 i rade 
the sun were still uneclipsed,” he noted a ‘iil rominence of 
yellowish color upon the moon’s limb. Many of a details of the 
total phase were distinctly visible to the nake in this clear 
at uides exclaimed that the sun was breaking to pie 
e have dwelt so long upon the observations wales the terri- 
-tory of the United States, ores no of Prot Hall remains to give de- 
im an hour after it had ended, the sky was cloudless again. The 
Sun and moon were invisible from a short time papsigee until a short 
time after totality, but the darkness was greatest between 9 174 
and 9 20 a. gtr Dag period there sae fas light than at ~ 
os S. R. Franklin of the United States 
: ne Mohican, saw three protuberances upon the moon’s aie 
ty) A. 
2. On the flight of a Bangg are meteorite across ‘oa Western 
Portion of fig id Forest, lat. 40° 50’ oe. W., 84° 40’; 
w min 
by J. Lawrence Sura ile Ky. 
rae o’clock on the morning of Oct. 27th, the ¢itizens of Forest, 
and for around, were ddenly aroused by a terrific sound in 
es Te su 
the upper regions like the report of a heavy sie vt gun, f followed 
otf or three reports in oo ge a resem 
