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ney from Caraccas to the Rio Negro, whether the 
meteors of the 12th November had been seen. He 
found that they had been observed by various indi- 
viduals in places very remote from each other ; and 
on returning to Europe was astonished to find that 
they had been seen there also. ‘The following is a 
brief account of the facts relating to these pheno- 
mena :—I1st, The luminous meteors were seen in 
the E. and E.N.E. at 40° of elevation, from 2 to 6 
A.M., at Cumana, in lat. 10° 27’ 52”, long. 66° 30’ ; 
at Porto Cabello, in lat. 10° 6’ 52", long. 67° 5’ ; and 
on the frontiers of Brazil, near the equator, in long. 
70° west. 2dly, The Count de Marbois observed 
them in French Guiana, lat. 4° 56, long. 54° 35’. 
3dly, Mr Ellicot, astronomer to the United States, 
being in the Gulf of Florida on the 12th November, 
saw an immense number of meteors, some of which 
appeared to fall perpendicularly ; and the same phe- 
nomenon was perceived on the American continent 
as far as lat. 30° 42’. 4thly, In Labrador, in lat. 
56° 55’, and lat. 58° 4’; in Greenland, in latitudes 
61° 5’ and 64° 14’, the natives were frightened by the 
vast quantity of fire-balls that fell during twilight, 
some of them of great size. OSthly, In Germany, 
Mr Zeissing, vicar of Itterstadt near Weimar, in 
lat. 50° 59’, long. 9° 1’ E., observed between 6 and 
7 in the morning of the 12th November some fall- 
ing-stars having a very white light. Soon after 
reddish streaks appeared in the S. and 8.W. ; and 
at dawn the south-western part of the sky was from 
time to time illuminated by white lightning run- 
ning in serpentine lines along the horizon. 
Calculating from these facts, it is manifest that 
the height of the meteors was at least 1419 miles; 
