 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...Where it was not too much obscured by thick clouds,a waving conical train of paler light was seen te attend it, in length about 10 or 12 diameters of the...about the body of the meteor, like that of a burning firebrand carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about... | |
 | 1808 - 544 pages
...too much obscured by thick clouds, a conical train of paler light was seen to attend it, waving, and in length about 10 or 12 diameters of the body. In...about the body of the meteor, like that of a burning fire-brand carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 pages
...conical train of paler light was seen t« attend it, in length about 10 or 12 diameters of the bodv. In the clear sky a brisk scintillation was observed...about the body of the meteor, like that of a burning firebrand carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1809 - 532 pages
...but rather like what is commonly called lieat-lightnmg. Where it was not too much obscured by thicks clouds, a waving conical train of paler light was...about the body of the meteor, like that of a burning fire-brand, carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about... | |
 | 1809 - 672 pages
...too much obscured by thick clouds, a conical tram of paler light was seen to attend и, waving, and in length about 10 or 12 diameters of the body. In...about the body of the meteor, like that of a burning firebrand carried agaiuit the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about... | |
 | 1809 - 688 pages
...much obscured by thick . cloud*, a conical train of paler light was seen to attend it, waving, andi in length about 10 or 12 diameters of the body. In the i clear sky a brisk scintillation was observed ! about me body of the meteor, like that of a buniin... | |
 | Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1810 - 458 pages
...intense as the lightning in a thunder-storm, but rather iike what is commonly called heat lightning. Where it was not too much obscured by thick clouds,...about the body of the meteor, like that of a burning firebrand carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith* and about... | |
 | 1812 - 696 pages
...obscured by thick clouds, a waving conical train of paler light was seen to attend it, in length about 1O or 12 diameters of the body. In the clear sky , a...about the body of the meteor, like that of a burning fire-brand carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15° short of the zenith, and about the same... | |
 | 1812 - 394 pages
...of clear sky, it flashed with a vivid light, yet not so intense as the lightning of a thunder storm. Where it was not too much obscured by thick clouds,...paler light was seen to attend it, in length about 1O or 12 diameters of the body. In the clear sky, a brisk scintillation was observed about the body*... | |
 | 1813 - 670 pages
...intense as the lightning in a thunder-storm, but rather like what is commonly called heat lightning. Where it was not too much obscured by thick clouds,...about the body of the meteor, like that of a burning firebrand cairied against the wind. ' It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about... | |
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... in length about 10 or 12 diameters of the body. In the clear sky a brisk scintillation was observed about the body of the meteor, like that of a burning firebrand carried against the wind. It disappeared about 15 degrees short of the zenith, and about... 
