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by those who witnessed the fall of the fragments; but the sounds, 
as heard by them, first proceeded from the zenith, and gradu- 
ally receded towards the southeast. This seemingly contradic- 
tory fact agrees perfectly with the hypothesis that the course of 
the meteor was northwesterly; for if it approached with a ve- 
locity greatly exceeding the velocity of sound, the explosions 
which occurred last must have been the first heard. At some 
fastern corner of Muskingum, with a direction of about .42° 
west of north. 
2. Iis height above the earth.—Mr. William C. Welles of Par- 
Kersburg, Virginia (lat. 39° 10’, long. 81° 24’), a gentleman of 
liberal education, testifies that being about three miles east of 
north, from his station to the line directly under the meteor’s 
path, is 20 miles, Calculating from these data I find for the 
