...a velocity of about 20 miles in a second ; a fragment of it alone reached the earth. The obliquity of the descent of meteorites, the peculiar substances...ascribed to the light arising from the eruption of volcanoes ; whence it has been supposed that meteorites have been projected from the moon by the impetus...

...velocity of about twenty miles in a second, a fragment of it alone reached the earth. The obliquity of the descent of meteorites, the peculiar substances...fall, show that they • are foreign to our system." But, without resuming the consideration of thû particular phenomenon, there is another which of late...

...ground. The obliquity of the descent of meteorites, the peculiar substances of which they are composed, and the explosion accompanying their fall, show that they are foreign to our system. Luminous spots have occasionally appeared on the dark part of the moon. These have been ascribed to the light arising...

...the earth. The obliquity of the descent of meteorites, the peculiar substances they are composed ofj and the explosion accompanying their fall, show that they are foreign to our system." But, without resuming the consideration of thin particular phenomenon, there is another which of late...

...velocity of about twenty miles in a second — a fragment of it alone reached the earth. The obliquity of the descent of meteorites, the peculiar substances...show that they are foreign to our system. Luminous jpota, altogether independent of the phases, have occasionally appeared on the dark part of the moon;...