 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...  Nature and Art - Page 271867Full view - About this book
 | William Martin - Children's literature - 1856 - 352 pages
...traveller, " were seen for upwards of four hours, in a direction from north to south, during which time there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameteis of the moon, which was not filled at every instant with blazing balls of fire, many of which... | |
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