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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... "
A New Manual of the Elements of Astronomy: Descriptive and Mathematical ... - Page 223
by Henry Kiddle - 1868 - 284 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
...elevation. 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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The Pocket Magazine of Classics and Polite Literature, Volume 1

1818 - 384 pages
...30°. There was very little wind, and no trace of clonds 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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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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Travels in South America

William Bingley - Amazon River - 1820 - 368 pages
...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...extent to three diameters of the moon, which was not, at every instant, filled with them. Their sizes were various, and all of them left luminous traces...
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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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The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature ...

Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...atmosphere, and this blew from the east. No trace of clouds was to be seen. M. Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon, there was not...three diameters of the moon, which was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars. The first were fewer in number, but as they were seen...
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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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The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History ..., Volume 3

1824 - 394 pages
...30". There was very little wind, and 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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