414 atmoipherical phenomena. 
of the earth, and other planets, which have 
porated with them, and are found loose m . 
space, being tliere combined and inflamed ' j,tbf i' 
known to us. Lastly, the most favourite “jr 
that the whole,, or, at least, the. more compaci , 
these meteors, are made up of materials throw j 
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mense volcanoes in the moon. This hypo' ’ , ji( 
se volcanoes in uie muuu. -vr g,i 
was started by M. Olbers, in 1795, has - ,, 
plausibly supported by the celebrated Laplace, ip 
, , 1 / 'he celebrated Laplace, . 
apply to the' ‘smaller and less substantial t)i®V 
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shooting stars, Hence these philosophers -- o‘,'air 
phenomena from some other cause, as electnci ; > 
trial cx-balations ; and observe, hr support _o 
trial cx-halations ; ana ooserve, .''' -tars ‘ 
they find it necessary to make, that shootin- ggpiC j/ 
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of a different nature from fii'e-balls, smce '' Yerr'S'’ V 
appear to ascend as well as to fall. This 
been especially dwelt on by MM. Chladni air . jgrv'f 
both of them favourably xroticed, as accura f 
Humboldt. f,er j 
On the aist of March, 1676 , two hours at' jt;#/ 
eittraordinary meteor was seen to pass 
eittraorainary meteor was seen a, 1 ,.*=- ^ .quU* -i, 
Bononia, its greatest altitude in the soutn-» . 
: and at Sienna, 58“ towards the nortb-n ^jt 
38“ ; and at Sienna, 58“ towards the ^ 
its course, which w'as from east-north-eas 
west, it passed over the Adriatic sea, as a 
Dalmatia.' It crossed all Italy, being 
Rimini and Savigniano, on the one side, "tt“ j 
> • X, ,|Tr^ G fl I. iff} , X 
the other : 
miles. At 
: its perpendicular altitude was at p' f 
: all the places near its course 
1 the places near us course u y,- 
nissing noise as it passed, like that of artiflcis j|b ^ 
mssing noise as it passed, nii.e luaL £,rt, ' i VI 
passing over Leghorn, it gave a very loud v ^Tj 
a cannon •, immediately after which 
was heiirdj like (lie rattling of a deeply-lo^ 
sing over the stones, which continued r 
The professor of mathematics at Bononia 
parent velocity of this surprising meteor "0 L y 
liundred and sixty miles in a minute ° igp o' x#,'! 
above ten times as swift as the diurnal rota 
under the equinoctial, and not many ., 1 , 0 ^' ‘ ^ t< 
witli which the annual motion of the earti ■ j^ii^ 
performed. It there appeared larger than ‘ iH 
diameter, and above half as large again 
