386 H. A; Newton on November Star-Showers. 
He was then in N. lat. 25°, near the edge of the Gulf Stream, 
He was afterward informed that the same phenomena were wit- 
nessed over a large portion of the West India Islands, and as 
far north as St. Mary’s, in lat. 80° 42’, where it appeared as bril- 
liant as with him off Cape Florida. 
The Moravian missionaries in Labrador and Greenland re- 
corded the same shower in their meteorological Journal. 
12th of Nov., there was at Nain and Hoffenthal a strange ap 
the air, pacha greatly Richtenes the Eskimos. For there fell down to ser in the 
four quarters of the heavens, about daybreak, very many fireballs, some of which 
re al o be half an ell in diameter. This phenoinenon was at the same time seen 
at N weg rrnhut and Lichtenau in Greenland. ....” ilb. Annalen der Physik, 
“ae England, the clouds and rain rendered it in many places 
impossible to see these meteors. Yet in some localities they 
were observed, while in others single meteors and flashes of light 
were so remarkable as to be noticed in several of the newhpal 
The first of the following quotations is from the New Castle 
Chronicle, given in the Monthly Magazine for Dec. 1799, p. 917. 
The other is from the Genileman’s Magazine, Nov., 1799, p. 987. 
It is tics from a newspaper. 
“On Tuesday morning, the 12th of November, wet meteors, or balls of 
were poke at Greatham, near Hartlepool, and ot arts of that neigbonood 
They were first observed between five and six Wilock in the morning, in an 
direction, and continued falling in succession, and together, till day reak. Thedt 
wae was very clear, and the moon, which was at full, shone with unco 
ney. like 
brilliancy. The meteors at first appeared what are valgarly hee choot 
falling stars, which soon became stationary; they t as it were, 
ut any perceptible report, and passed to the northward, leaving? ‘behind ror Dea 
tiful trains of floatin ne fire in various shapes, some pointed, some irradiated, some in 
sparks, and others in a large column. The fire balls continued fallin near two 
hours, and were sneceedéd “till near eight o’clock by slight flashes of lightning. 
The general ag rance was sublimel parity particularly to the Hartlepool fisher- 
ea. . 
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crossing each other in different directions, and (a behind them long 
trains » which were visible for two or three minutes after these luminous bodies 
In Germany, Mr. Zeissing, at Isterstadt, near Weimar, € 
Upon his meteorological journal an account of bright ra 
and flashes seen that morning in the sky.° Bright flashes, a0 
= appearances, were seen at Carlsruhe and at Weis: 
t. Mary’s, in Florida, is more than 90° in long. west of Is 
stadt, and Lichtenau is more than 60° north of places in South 
America where the shower was seen. It is very evident t 
more shooting stars were to be seen in America than in urope. 
There is 7 reason to believe that this shower, which w#s 
7 Ree Mow Magesine Dec. 1799, pp. 917, 920, 921, 922, and Feb., 1800, p.2 
