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" Towards the morning of the 13th of November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the... "
The Geography of the Heavens and Class-book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a ... - Page 156
by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1856 - 338 pages
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The Popular Educator, Volumes 5-6; Volume 14

Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not...of the moon which was not filled every instant with bodies or falling stars." On the 13th of November, 1831, another grand meteoric shower occurred, which...
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The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander Von Humboldt

Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...was to be seen. From the first appearance of the phenomenon, there was not in the firmament a space equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, which was not filled every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number, but as they were of different sizes, it was impossible...
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the ..., Volume 3

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1818 - 604 pages
...had risen to enjoy the freshness of the air in the gaUery, perceived them first. Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regularly from north to south. They filled a space in the sky extending from the true east 30° toward...
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The Pocket Magazine of Classics and Polite Literature, Volume 1

1818 - 384 pages
...the freshness of the air in the gallery, 'perceived them first. Thousands of bolides dire-ball's 'I and falling stars, succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regularly from north to south. They filled a space in the sky extending from the true east 30' toward...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 18

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1818 - 574 pages
...hours ; their direction invariably being from north to south. There was not a space in the heavens equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, which was not observed at every moment filled with fire-balls and falling stars. All these meteors left luminous...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

Science - 1864 - 480 pages
...meridian. Some of them attained a height of 40°, and all exceeded 25° or 80° Mr. Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars The Guaiqueries in the Indian suburb...
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Travels in South America

William Bingley - Amazon River - 1820 - 368 pages
...house where he lodged, enjoying the freshness of the air, perceived them first. Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was regularly from north to south. He reJates that, from the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not...
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The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature ...

Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...the freshness of the air in the gallery, perceived them first. Thousands of bolides, (fire-balls,) and falling stars, succeeded each other during four...Their direction was very regular, from north to south. They filled a space in the sky extending from the true east 30° towards the north and south. In an...
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The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature ...

Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...the gallery, perceived them ;ii *t. Thousands of bolides, (fire-balls,) and falling stars. Micceeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular, from north to south. They filled a span• i the sky extending from the true east 30° toward* tli" north and south. In...
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the ..., Volume 3

Alexander von Humboldt - Natural history - 1822 - 592 pages
...more 329 and this blew from the east. No trace of clouds was to be seen. Mr Bonpland relates, that, from the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not...firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number,...
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