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tent of the globe of 64° of latitude, and 91° of 

 longitude ; at the equator, in South America, 

 at Labrador, and in Germany! I found acci- 

 dentally during my passage from Philadelphia 

 to Bourdeaux (in the Memoirs of the Pennsyl- 

 vanian Society) the corresponding observation 

 of Mr. Ellicot (lat. 30° 42') ; and upon my 

 return from Naples to Berlin, I read the ac- 

 count of the Moravian Missionaries among the 

 Eskimoes, in the Bibliothek of Gottingen. Se- 

 veral philosophers * had already discussed at 

 this period the coincidence of the observations 

 in the North with those at Cumana, which Mr. 

 Bonpland and I had published in 1800. 



The following is a succinct enumeration of 

 facts : 1st. the fiery meteors were seen in the 

 east, and the east-north-east, to 40° of elevation, 

 from 2 h to 6 h at Cumana (lat. 10° 27' 52", long. 

 66° 30') ; at Porto Cabello (lat. 10° 6' 52", long. 

 67° 5') ; and on the frontiers of Brazil, near 

 the equator, in the longitude of 70° west of the 

 meridian of Paris. 2nd. In French Guiana 

 (lat. 4° 56', long. 54° 35'), " the northern part 

 of the sky was seen all on fire. Innumerable 

 falling stars traversed the heavens during an 

 hour and a half, and diffused so vivid a light, 



* Messrs. de Hardenberg, Hitter, and Bceckmann, in Gil- 

 bert's Annals, vol. vi. p. 191 j vol. xiii, p. 255 ; vol. xiv, p. 

 116; vol. xv, p. 107. (Voigt., Mag. der Naterhunde, Tom, 

 ix, p. 468. 



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