146 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
traverse this distance. Any sound which followed soon after the 
explosion must therefore be ascribed to some other cause than this 
: 
Meteor of May 20th Os a letter of E. A. Smith, dated 
Msisten: —— Island, Suffolk Co., N. Y., July 1, 1869). —T have 
obtained t he following facts eendeine the meteor of May 20th, 
from rsons, Mr. and Mrs. Fling, residing at the time at 
Catckinuie 13 or 14 miles east of Riverhead. Mrs. Fling com- 
pared the light to the Drummond light which she had seen in 
Broadway. The meteor passed from 8.W. to N.E., parallel with 
the front of the house, (which she says points to the S.E. ,) and at an 
altitude half way between the horizon and the zenith. She thought 
the ve th of the meteor, which no ny ane corse was 
when he heard a tremendous jarrin a a hought it must 
be a cannon fired from a ship in oro ; others corroborate the 
statement of great noise. Ihave since conversed with Mr. and 
Mrs. Clark, very worthy people in Centre Moriches, and their ac- 
count agrees in all ‘atpartestt particulars, with the "former by Mr. 
and Mrs. F. Taking the diameter at 30’, and the distance (from 
the time 3m.) 39 or 40 miles, the alt titude above the earth must 
d 
say 114). 
3. Aurora Borealis of the evening of April 15th._—Besides 7 
two articles on the auroral display of April 15th, to be found 
pages 65 and 114 of this volume, other accounts have reached o 
from various hr a a over the country; and also we have, 
through the E urnals, notices of its being widely see? 
sm that cbintiient. e ner to another time a summary of the 
of the mr is € ne ae ze 
An interesting feature of rer era is mast soni in the pro 
posed microscopical — and a large room will be specially 
