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hind one cloud and disappearing behind another. Other obser- 
vers at some distance to the south of the point where the fall 
occurred saw this meteorite as a luminous bo 
The above I conceive to be all the observations worthy of 
note concerning the fall of this meteorite. 
The time of the day, and the number and intelligence of the 
observers, unite to give considerable interest and value to these 
observations. While some of them show points of difference, 
natural to the observation of sudden and startling phenomena, 
we can yet deduce from them many conclusions with more or 
less accuracy, thus :— ' 
Lhe direction of the Meteorite—My own observations of two of 
the stones which fell half a mile apart, enable me to give the di- 
rection of the meteor with some degree of exactness. The first 
of these stones struck the end of the rails of a Virginia (zig-zag) 
it subdivided and was scattered (‘exploded’ as usually termed,) 
over Guernsey and the edge of Muskingum counties, It is, how- 
ever, but proper that I should give Prof. Evans's computation 
from the data he collected; they were published in the July num- 
ber of this Journal, but their reproduction will not be out of 
Pp ere. ee 
“Mr. William C. Welles of Parkersburg, Virginia (lat. 39° _ 
10’, long. 81° 24’), a gentleman of liberal education, testifies — 
that being about three miles east of that place at the time of the — 
occurrence, he happened to look up to the northeast of him, and 
saw a meteor of great size and brilliancy, emereias rom behind 
one cloud and disappearing behind another. When about 
was 
east of north he thinks its altitude was 65°. Now the dist: s 
in a direction 35° east of north, from his station to the liz os 
rectly under the meteor’s path, is 20 miles. Calculating from — 
