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number that actually fell between 5.50 Pp. M. and 10.30 Pp. M. (i e., 
in 4h. 40m.), and from the difficulty in counting the smaller meteors 
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spot without moving among the stars. At 8 h. 52 m. a red meteor 
was noticed quite close toy Andromeda, which attained a maximum 
ian a diant point the meteors were the 
smallest, and had the shortest paths among the stars, increasing 
in , brightness, and length of path as their distance from this 
was a marked (though gradual) increase in size and brightness, 
especially after 7 Pp. m., and in those meteors considerably removed 
from the radiant point. Ther also a remarkable similarity 
regards apparent speed from those of the ordinary 
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continuous a s the sky; in fact, but few exhibited - 
tinuous streaks, and these were all those meteors that were colore 
mostly re r five times during the display (and more 
reports of very distant gun-shots; but whether connected with the 
phenomenon I am unable to say, though the same kind of noise 
and once, at 7h. 31m., this 
another red meteor, equal to a 
near the radiant point across C : 
visible for two minutes. Streaks lingered in several other 1 
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