tio = «Ss Mr. Cavario’s Deftription of a” 
being inftantly illuminated. At this moment the body of the 
miecteor appeared of an oblong form, like that reprefented at B 
in the figure; but it prefently acquired a tail, and foon after: 
1 tparted into feveral {mall bodies, each having a tail, and all 
moving in the fame direCtion, at a {mall diftance from each 
‘other, and very little behind the principal body, the fize of 
which was gradually reduced after the divifion (fee D in the 
figure). In this form the whole meteor. moved as far as the 
S.E. by E. where the light decreafing rather abruptly, the 
‘whole difappeared. } ! 
During the phanomenon no noife was heard by any of our 
‘company, excepting one perfon, who imagined to have heard 
a crackling noife, fomething like that which is produced by 
{mall wood when burning. But about ten minttes after the 
difappearance of the meteor, and when we were juft going to 
retire from the terrace, we heard a rumbling noife, as if it were 
of thunder at a great diftance, which, to all probability, was 
the report of the meteor’s explofion and it may be naturally 
imagined that this explofion happened when the meteor parted: 
into {mall bodies, wiz. at about the middle of its: track. 
Now if that noife was really the report of the explofion 
which happened in the abovementioned place, the diftance, 
altitude, courfe, and other particulars relating to. this meteor, 
mutt be very nearly as exprefled in the following lift; they 
being calculated with mathematical accuracy, upon the pre- 
ceding particulars; and upon the fuppofition that found travels 
1150 feet per fecond. But if the noife we heard was not that 
‘of the meteor’s explofion, then the following calculations muft 
‘be confidered as quite ufelefs and erroneous. 
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