THE GREAT METEOR OF MAY 71, 189. 505 
diameter long; its course was marked by a trail like sparks of 
fire, fully three degrees long; it was in sight for fully half a 
minute. Its light, like sunlight, made every other light pale, 
only it looked like a ball of iron at a white heat. It left a trail 
behind it two or three degrees long and one degree wide. It 
travelled in a curve and very slowly. 
No. 9, Rookwood—Mr. Bissett, Post Master, Rookwood. “Mr. 
Peek called my attention to the meteor, time 10°48 p.m. It was 
" amagnificent object, moving slowly, and remaining in sight twenty 
to twenty-five seconds; it was as large as the moon and as 
brilliant as the electric light, I took the time from Mr. Morton, 
whose watch was ad justed to railway time. Messrs. Peek, Morton, 
and I were standing together and saw it, in all important points 
Wwe are agreed, except that our estimates of the time it was visible 
differ a little, it lasted twenty to twenty-five seconds by my 
estimate. 
No. 10, Rookwood.—Mr. Peter McGrath of Mary Street, Rook- 
wood, on May 29th, in course of conversation said he saw the 
meteor of May 7th; he did not look at a watch, but the trains ran 
always within a minute of true time, and he took the time when 
he saw the meteor to be 10:46 p.m., because one train left the 
station at 10-39%p.m. and another at 10-52 p.m. The meteor 
seemed to come out of a cloud which was about 12°, above the 
horizon, and immediately afterwards fire seemed to flash out of 
it all round as if it exploded, and its size increased enormously. 
From this explosion an intensely brilliant meteor seemed to shoot 
out and go away to the south. When first seen it was over & 
hill which he believes to be Tomah, bearing W.N.W. The moon 
as hear the full and shining brightly, and he is sure the meteor 
after the explosion was three times the diameter of the moon. 
No. 11, Strathfield —Mr. H. 8. Thompson, Architect and 
Surveyor, saw the meteor of May 7th. He was standing on the 
Strathfield Railway Station and saw the meteor at 10°50 p.m., it 
— exceedingly brilliant; it seemed to descend, then suddenly 
*xpand in size and brilliance and shoot away more brilliant than 
