 Some augmened the number of loud reports, and terror and imagination seem, in various instances, to have magnified every circumstance of the phenomenon. The only thing which seemed of any importance beyond this statement, was derived from Mr, Elihu Staples,...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 31869Full view - About this book
 | William Nicholson - 1810 - 844 pages
...died away apparently in the di«' rection from which the meteor came." — Mr. Staples observed, " that when the meteor disappeared, there were " apparently three successive efforts or leaps of the fire " ball, which grew more dim at every throe, and disap" pearecl with the last. From the various... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...and imagination seem, in various instances, to have magnified every circumstance of the phenomenon. The only thing which seemed of any importance beyond...with the last. The meteor was seen as far south as New-York ; and the explosion was heard, and a tremulous motion of the earth perceived, between forty... | |
 | 1808 - 544 pages
...and imagination seem, in various instances, to have magnified every circumstance of the phenomenon. The only thing which seemed of any importance, beyond...dim at every throe, and disappeared with the last. Such were the sensible phenomena which attended this meteor. We purposely avoid describing the appearances... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 pages
...circumstance ot the phenomenon. tf he only thing which seemed of any importance beyond this vtatemenl, was derived from Mr, Elihu Staples, who said, that...which grew more dim at every throe, and disappeared witli the last. The meteor was seen as far south as New-York ; and the explosion was heard, and a tremulous... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 pages
...the numbers of the Chris1808.] Philosophical Intelligence. ed every circumstance ot the phenomenon. The only thing which seemed of any importance beyond...derived from Mr, Elihu Staples, who said, that when the meleor disappeared, there were apparently three successive efforts or leaps of the fireball, which... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1809 - 532 pages
...in various instances, to have magnified every circumstance of the phenomenon. The only observation which seemed of any importance beyond this statement,...and disappeared with the last. The meteor was seen East of the Connecticut, and West of Hudson river, as far South as New- York, and as far North as the... | |
 | Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1810 - 458 pages
...and imagination seem, in various instances, to have magnified every circumstance of the phenomenon. The only thing which seemed of any importance beyond this statement, was derived from Mr. Klihu Staples, who said, that when the meteor disappeared, there were apparently three successive efforts... | |
 | 1812 - 394 pages
...direction from which the meteor came. When the meteor disappeared, there were three successive effor:s or leaps of the fire-ball, which grew more dim at every throe, and disappeared with the last." The latitude and longitude of Weston are about 41° 15' N., and 73° 27' W. from Greenwich. The following... | |
 | 1812 - 696 pages
...meteor came. When the meteor disappeared, there were three successive eftbr s or leaps of the fire-hall, which grew more dim at every throe, and disappeared with the last." The latitude and longitude of Weston are aboHt 41° IS' N., and 73° 27' W. from Greenwich. The following... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - 1825 - 151 pages
...and fainter, as a red hot cannon ball would do, if cooling in the dark, only with much more rapidity. When the meteor disappeared, there were apparently...three successive efforts or leaps of the fire-ball, whi*h grew more dim at every throe, and disappeared with the last. "There was no peculiar smell in... | |
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