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‘and then gradually diminishing in frequency. While every other mete- 
orie period has intermitted, this of August holds out with little change. 
The observations below stated were made in the open air, from 
re 
 10P.m. of the 9th and 3 a.m. of the 10th of August, 1860, we observed 
Jive hundred and sixty-five different shooting stars, distributed as fol- 
lows, viz: 
B Mie9.°10 to 11,0, NB, 991118 to 19 ps N. Boome 
S.E. 30 S.E. 92 
S.W: 35 S.W. 47 
N.W. 11 | N.W. 18 
105 101 
Aug. 10. 0b to 1h 4. u, N.E. 19] 1) to 2ha.u, N.E.. 34 
S.E. 27 5. Bu as 
S.W. 44 S.W. . 31 
N.W. 17 io NW. 338 
“107 97 
2h to 3halm, N.E. 30 
.E. 20 
S. W. 65 
N. W. 40 
155 
‘Tone appeared to explode. Their general Southwesterly direction was 
a as, tisisly as we could éslieni, at least three fourths of all 
 %onformed to the radiant of former years, in the vicinity of the sword- 
2 handle of Perseus, . h h 
a mg our watch the sky was clear except that between 14 and 2 
A.M. there were some clouds about the west. The moon in her lat 
‘Matter embarrassed our view after 11 p, w., and doubtless seat 
the m 
ae This is not far from six times the common nightly average for 
like interval, 
“MJOUR. scL_sEconp SERIES, Vor. XXX, No. 89.—SEPT., 1860. 
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