Mr. Cavaxto’s Defeription of @ Meteor, &c. 109° 
eompafs,. that this luminous meteor was firft perceived. Some: 
flafhes-of lambent light, much like the aurora borealis, were firft’ 
obferved on the northern part of the heavens, which were foon: 
perceived to proceed from a roundifh luminous body, nearly as» 
big as the femidiameter of the moon, and almoft‘ftationary in: 
the abovementioned point of the heavens (fee A in the an-- 
nexed hgure, tab.1V). It was then about 25 minutes after nine’ 
o’clock in the.evening *. This-ball, at the beginning; appeared ' 
of a faint bluith light, perhaps -fromits being juft kindled, or~ 
from its appearing through the hazinefs; but-it gradually in-- 
creafed its light, and foon began to move, at’ firft afcending 
above the horizon in an oblique dire€tion towards the-eaft. Its~ 
courfe in this :direction..was-very fhort, perhaps of five or fix 
degrees; after which it turned itfelf towards the eaft, and’ 
moving in a direction nearly parallel to the horizon, reached as ~ 
far as the S. E. by E. where itfinally difappeared. ‘The whole’ 
duration of the meteor was half a minute, or rather lefs;- 
and the altitude of its track: feemed to be about 25 degrees~ 
above the horizon. A fhort time. after the beginning of? its: 
motion, the luminous body paffed behind the above-mentioned — 
fmal! cloud, fo that during this paffage we obferved only the » 
light that was caft in the heavens: from behind -the cloud, . 
without actually feeing the body from which it proceeded, for 
about the fixth or at moft the fifth part of its track; but as. 
foon as the meteor emerged from behind the cloud, its light - 
was prodigious. Every object appeared very diftin@:; the whole - 
face of the country in that beautiful profpect before the terrace - 
* Mr. Ssnppy’s watch was feventeen minutes paft nine neareft;. it does not mark ~ 
feconds. 
