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8. Notice of the Meteor of Nov. 15, 1859; by Prof. E. Loomts.—On 
ascribed to the meteor. By taking the mean of the estimates of several 
observers, I have determined that the point of the horizon where the 
‘Meteor vanished was about 21° west of south. . 
rom the newspaper reports we learn that the same meteor was seen 
at Salem, Boston, and New Bedford, Mass., at Providence, R. L, at New 
Haven, Middletown, and Waterbury, Conn., at Albany and many other 
og in New York, at numerous places in New Jersey, at Baltimore, 
d., at Washington and Georgetown, D. C., as also at Alexandria 
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a newspaper notice coming from Prof. Henry of the Smithsonian 
we learn that at Washington the apparent path of the meteor 
’’8 nearly perpendicular to the horizon, and its point of disappearance 
Was estimated to be four degrees north of east. Those lines of direction 
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This dincieaen is sone: by the reports of the meteor from New 
Jersey, The meteor was generally observed throughout the southern 
Part of that State, and was everywhere succeeded by a very remarkable 
explosion. At Beeseley’s Point, situated on the Atlantic Ocean near lat. 
is said to have been from northeast to 
__ SECOND SERIES, Vor. XXIX, No, 85.—JAN., 1960. 
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