408 ATMOSPHERICAL PHENOMENA. 
tunately, none of them could recollect 
the meteors, or their apparent height. 
of the mountains and thick forests which ^ 
missions of the cataracts and the little village ■ 
presume that the bolides were still visible at * 
horizon. On my arrival at the southern j 
Spanish Guiana, at the little fort of San Cano , - 
party of Portugueze, who had gone up 
from the Mission of St. Joseph of the M®*’ f j 
who assured me, that in that part of Brazi , 
menon had been perceived, at least as jor it^^ii? 
das Cachoeiras, consequently as far as die ^'I'^fgiglit 'jiJ 
“ I was powerfully struck at the immense yis'^ 
these bolides must have attained, to have ® 
the same time at Cumana, and on the front' |c ' 
ill a line of two hundred and thirty 
But what was my astonishment, when at ^ f 
Europe, I learnt, that the same phonomeo^^^.j^^ije^ » 
perceived on an extent of the globe of 64° o* 
91° of longitude; at the equator, in South 
Labrador, and in Germany ! I found accio® 
my passage from Philadelphia to Bordeaux, ,jpg 
of the Pennsylvanian Society, the correspon J 
tions of Mr. Ellicott (lat 30” 42') ; and, upo" 
from Naples to Berlin, I read the account \ 
Missionaries among the Eskimoes, in the 
tingen. Several philosophers had already 
this period the coincidence of the observatioP^ 
with those at Cumana, which M. Bonpl^ 
published in 1800. . p ^ 
“ The following is a succinct enumewh^^j 
J-st, the fiery meteors were seen in the east. h 1 
north-east, to 40° of elevation, from 2 h. to 6 
(lat. 10° 27' 32", long. 66° 30') ; at Porto Ca® pf / 
G 52“, long. 67* 5'); and on the front‘®|^pf ^|i« 
near die equator, in the longitude of 76* 4° 
ridian of Paris. 2d, In French Guiana £ 
54® 35'), the northern part of the sky was ®®jpriC^^|)’''( 
Innumerable falling stars traversed the heavens 
and a half, and diffused so vivid a light, that a 
be compared to the blazing sheaves shot out ^ 
3d„ Mr, Ellicott, ^^astronomer to die United 
