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Meteore
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Miscell. Subj. LXXII. Vol. VI. No. 9., METEORS., lo the extraordinary meteors or airy pbe- netrable to us.- The meteor here Fig. ured nomeca belong the fiery globes, that now was to be feen at London the 13th of Noand then all at once appear in the air. vember, 1803. towards half paft eight o' Tho' we cannot yet trace them to their clock in the evening. To an obferver the original, however they are by no means an fiery mafs appear'd at firft (Fig.. 1.) fnictly omen of an imminent misfortune, as fimple, circumfcrib'd, and accompanied by feveral fuperftitious people imagine. We rnuft ra- little fiery balls; but when advancing it got ther fuppofe, that, like the North-light and a fiery tail. An other obferver perceiv'd other phenomena, they owe their exiftence (Fig.. 2.) beams flafhing out of the elliptick to eftablifhed natural laws, but ftill impe- body, which terminated in little ftars.
