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that those meteors might be compared to the 

 blazing sheaves shot out from a firework." 

 The knowledge of this fact rests upon highly 

 respectable testimony, that of the Count of Mar- 

 bois, at that time transported to Cayenne, a 

 victim to his love of jussice and of rational, 

 constitutional liberty. 3d. Mr. Ellicot, astro- 

 nomer to the United States, having terminated 

 his trigonometric operations for the rectifica- 

 tion of the limits on the Ohio, being on the 

 12th of November in the Gulf of Florida, in 

 the latitude of 25°, and longitude 81° 50' *, saw 

 in all parts of the sky, " as many meteors as 

 stars, moving in all directions : some appeared 

 to fall perpendicularly ; and it was expected 

 every minute that they would drop into the 

 vessel." The same phenomenon was perceived 

 upon the American continent as far as the 

 latitude of 30° 42'. 4th. In Labrador, at Nain 

 (lat. 56° 55 ; ) and Hoffenthal (lat. 58° 40 ; in 

 Greenland, at Lichtenau (lat. 61° 5') and at 

 New Herrenhut (lat. 64° 14', long. 52° 20') ; the 

 Eskimoes were frightened at the enormous 

 quantity of bolides, that fell during twilight 

 toward all points of the firmament, and " some 

 of which were a foot broad." 5th. In Germany, 

 Mr. Zeissing, Vicar of Itterstadt, near Weimar 

 (lat. 50° 59', long. 9° Y east), perceived, on the 



* Phil. Trans, of the American Soc. 1804, vol. vi, p. 2D. 



