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seem necessary before accepting this eastern point of commencement 
of the track. It appears from projection that it is hardly possible 
that the track could be much further prolonged backwards than the 
South point, as seen from Sunderland, unless some abnormal record 
had been made — abnormal with respect to the generality of meteor 
tracks. The path as seen from "Wigton and Sunderland, conforms 
most closely to the requirements of computation, and it is from their 
observations that the data for the foregoing remarks have been 
collected. 
All the observers agree that the bolide was travelling in a direc- 
tion from the S.E. to the N.W. Probably passing from over the 
borders of Yorkshire and Durham, near Darlington, across the latter 
county and then Northumberland, terminating over the Cheviot 
Hills a little E. of Cumberland. The mean heights from these two 
observations give an elevation of 43 miles as it passed over the 
borders of Durham and Northumberland, and 25 miles at its point of 
extinction, over the borders of the latter county and Scotland ; or 
75 miles in 2 \ sees. 
An observer stationed at Falkirk should have seen the meteor 
in the S.E. portion of the sky, and it would have appeared as an 
almost stationary ball of light suspended at an altitude of a little 
over 25°. 
The radiant of the meteor appears to have been in Sextans at 
161° — 4°, which was in Azimuth 320° and altitude 25° at the time 
of observation." 
