134 Comets. 



rently) £ Urs83 Majoris, it was 3° long and went Northwards. 

 It passed by to Ursas Majoris, and thence Southward (Ma- 

 tuoan-lin), by a route which Pingre says must have been 

 erroneously stated. However, it is certain that a comet ap- 

 peared this year in the Polar regions, and that it lasted about 

 six weeks. — (Ditmarus, Chronicon, viii.) It is less certain that 

 its length increased to 30°, and that passing Leo it disap- 

 peared in Hydra. 



1023. A comet appeared in Leo during the autumn. — (Ade- 

 marus, Chronicon.) The original account contains much that is 

 certainly fictitious. 



1024. A comet appeared the year before the death of 

 Bolestas I. Xing of Poland. — (Dlugossus, Historia Polonica.) 



1033. A comet 2° long, appeared on March 5 to the " East 

 of the north country " [N.E. ?] . — (Ma-tuoan-lin.) It appeared 

 on March 9 about the tenth hour of the night, and lasted for 

 three nights till sunrise. — (Fragmentum Historice Francorum, 

 i. and ii.) 



1034. A column of fire was seen in the E. in September. — 

 (Cedrenus, p. 737.) It appeared between k and <f> Hydras and 

 Crater. — (De Mailla, viii. 199.) 



1035. [i.J A comet appeared in k and (f> Hydras and Crater. 

 It was 7° and 5 tsun long. — (Ma-tuoan-lin.) Possibly this is 

 identical with the preceding. If 1035 is the right year then 

 the column of fire probably was a meteor. 



1035. [ii.] On November 11a comet, with a faint tail, ap- 

 peared in the western ribbon of Pisces. — (Ma-tuoan-lin.) 



1041. Comets appeared. — (Glycas, Annates, p. 316.) 



1042. On October 6 a comet appeared. Its motion was 

 from E. to W. and it lasted throughout the month. — 

 (G-lycas, p. 319.) 



1046. A comet appeared in the fifteenth year of Henry I. 

 of France. — (Godellus, Chronica.) 



1049. On the morning of March 10, before sunrise, a 

 comet was seen near /3 Aquarii, and a Equulei ; it passed by 

 the head of Orion, Musca, and the horns of Aries, and lasted 

 sixteen weeks. — (Gaubil.) " La route qu'on assigne a cette 

 comete n'est pas naturelle." — (Pingre i. 372.) Ma-tuoan-lin' s 

 route is scarcely more intelligible. 



1056. In July or August a comet appeared in the circum- 

 polar regions. — (De Mailla, viii. 245.) It seems to have passed 

 southward to Hydra, but Gaubil places it in the head of 

 Orion when first seen. Ma-tuoan-lin agrees with De Mailla. 

 It was 10° long, and on September 25 had disappeared. [N.B. 

 The head of Orion is Tsoui, the other region, Tse-ouey ; pro- 

 nunciation nearly identical, hence possibly a confusion.] 



1058. " The death of Casimir, King of Poland, was an- 



