410 atmospherical phekomena- ^ 
missionaries in Labrador ; but, at the 
be doubted, and this fact appears to me ve^ iO a 
that in the New World, between the meridian . 
82° between the equator and 64° north, at ^c< J 
an immense number of bolides and falling 
an — - i,gre ^ ,«■ . 
ceived ; and that those meteors had every ^ ' leag^ 
brilliancy, throughout a space of 921, (MO 
"The scientific men who have lately man ^sider 7 
t cMrc 'AU(\ thp.lr narallaxes, (>, ,» 
'• ine scieiiuiiv. ^ 
researches on falling stars and their parallaxes, f 
as meteors belonging to the_ farthest ° ..[is 3^ 
as meteors ueiuuj; 11,5 Wnrcai"’ ,‘;f|i 
phere, between the region of the Auiora " 
r. . Some have been 
of the lightest clouds, home nave oeei. o, 
not more than 14,000 toises, or about y 
tion. The highest do not appear to exceed thiitj j,.i j 
are often more than a hundred feet in ^ 
swiftness is such, that they dart, in ^ * ra‘ V 
space of two leagues. Some of 
space or two leaguca. jimlam , :j 
the direction of which was almost perpen«;^“i lij,^ 
fidiing stars are not aerolites, which. 
or forming an angle of 50° with the verucai^ggiiy^ 
extremely remarkable circumstance has led w / 
w/^f .sjirnVitf'Q- wlUCilj „o ^ViT 
that falling stars are noi aeiuuLca, (f. 
hovered about a long time in space, lake ^ 
accidentally into our atmosphere, and fall ° 
% 
dentally into our atmospnere, , ipoa’ ,,ii 
' Whatever may be the origin of these mn 
it is difficult to conceive any instantaneoa^.^ pdjl 
it IS dimcuit to conceive <1,7 Yir'‘ /' j 
taking place in a region, where 'here i.s le> 
vacuum of our air^umps ; and ^ (, ’ 0 /j 
the mercury 
line. We have 
ar air-pumps; and wffiere (at 2p> pv 
in the barometer would not 
ave ascertained the uniform ,• ft 
i 
have ascertainea me umiou,, pov i ft 
pheric air to 0 003 nearly, only to an „tu'V V 
ioises: consequently, not beyond the last s 
,.muds. It might be admitted, that- in pK *J 
of the globe, gaseous substances, which y ct j,roi'b 
to us, may have risen toward that 
tire hilling stars pass: but accurate expet im cii 
, . , . , same ; ati'! y » 
superior 
ass: nut accuraic p,;, 
mixtures of gases w'hich have not the sarn 
prove, that w'e cannot admit a 
atmosphere entirely different from 
the 
ii” . 
X//' 
atmosphere entirely amerenc no,,, -- 
Gaseous substances mix and penetrate e. 
least motion ; and a uniformity of their nn 
ICiiSL j 
taken place in^the lapse of 
tire effects of a repulsive action 
