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» '''liiffi ‘^^fit'guished some toward tlie north-east, by 
rapidit)' of their movement, 
'k sun-rise. ■ This circumstance will 
" when I state that in full day-light. 
■'C'^o’c 
interior of the houses in the town of Popayan 
'‘^utninated by an aerolite of immense magni- 
liter the town when the sun was shining clearly, 
e 3. M. Bonpland and myself, during our second 
V**'W '-’tniana, after having observed on tiie 26th of 
l^lie immersion of the first satellite of Ju- 
Vi^^lit(.g seeing the planet distinctly with the naked 
^'1 j 'iifi? ®^intitcs after the disc of the sun had appeared 
K>iCr- Ther e was a very slight vapour in the east, 
H ij^'ttj^‘‘Ppeared on an azure sk)'. These facts prove 
^ ''Pid -f P'^i'ity and transparency of the atmosphere under 
tite mass of diffused light is so rancli 
Sir'^^se ni'e more perfectly dissolved. The 
Weakens the diff usion of the solar light, 
of that which emanates either 
’■'P‘^®i'j or the moon, seen on the second day 
ijl* of M. Chladni having singularly fixed the 
Illy ^fientific world upon the bolides and i'alllng 
,iV '^e (.y ^P'’'’ff'1'c from Europe, we did not neglect, 
Jt).‘ to ” of our journey from Caraccas to die Rio 
of j^H're every where, whether the meteors of 
^ '■I'hp '^'‘^'i^lior had been perceived. In a savage 
air^ greater number of the inhabitants sleep 
,|^e extraordinary a phenomenon could not 
V^i|| oxcept when concealed by clouds 
' 'if observation. The Capuc' ' 
If '‘“'loi '-'.'•’'.ivjLi-jij. x„c Capuchin missionary 
V '® pr ?• fi-pura, a village situate amid the savaii- 
''t'ar of Varinas ; and th.e Franciscan monks 
V'i; of tlie Oroonoko, and at Maroa, 
V|\ ?*t)s . ^fie Rio Negro ; had seen numberless 
fiolides illumine the vault of heaven. 
V‘'V i ’‘Oiri ‘"oiines 
Ehttriana, 
distance. All 
at one hundred and 
these observers com- 
(['^'"'•Tiou to a beautiful fire-work, which had 
six in the morning. Some ot the 
“y 111 ' llie day upon their ritual ; others had 
t'earest festiva.is of the tliurch. Unfoi- 
