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^'^Mospherical phenomena 
METEORS. 
to look, contagious throiigli the croud, 
'OIUOK, cullLtlgluiia .... 
T||> g runs, and into wondrous shapes 
llif^jPPfaraiicc tlirows : armies in meet array, 
^i!| "ith aerial spears and steeds of fire ; 
Jn |,| '® *aug lines of full-extended war 
koiij "'»!! fight comniixt, the sanguine flood 
As(| firoad slaughter o’er the plains of heaven, 
'“ft all scan the visionary scene, 
swetl.s the superstitious din, 
hi *^®***^ j and busy frenzy talks 
battle ; cities overturned, 
Ht night in swallowing earthquake sunk, 
f * wrapt in fierce ascending flame; 
2* he«ri' inundation, storm ; 
■hl'iniiJ. “"d every great distress ; 
ruling fate has struck 
nature's self 
'rk‘';!*,*»hv:.rsed when 
v'letLn'?"'’'® 
St jg to totter on the brink of time. 
?>ii| Rtan of pliilosophic eye, 
r’'k'ii ' > *ke waving brightness lie 
Ec cg* ’'"eveys, inquisitive to know 
'k' till " ‘‘"k materials, yet unfixed, 
ttppcavauec beaiitifui and new. 
K&. 
Thomson. 
'kii' he'’ lliese splendid phenomena of the heaveiM 
tvell elucidated as by an extract ffoHi tha 
ttf " 
. xr-^hs 
'I.. 'ill 
d'li, 
dui_i.Liat.i-kx exo uj — — 
. -• Humboldt and Bonpland to the equinoc- 
- bv Continent. The sublime wonder* 
'll at r'^'® former of these travellers were witnessed 
'■ vPrqv-^^'rtiana, a city of South America, and capital 
® hio-K® that name. 
VSieKV°^ the nth of November, 1799, was cool 
N ."'a, IK “^aiuiful. Tow'ard the morning, from half 
""ost extraordinary luminous meteors were 
c /'e east. M. Bonpland, who had risen to 
‘‘v: j- '-tiai.. ivi. vv*is_. *. — -- 
St. T,®**‘'»tess of the air in the gallery perceived 
®'^''ands of bolides, (fire-balls.) and tallingstars, 
y other during four hours- Their direction 
from north to south. They filled a space 
'-^ending from the true east 30° toward the 
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