Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-12-03
lRdIefgh Register.
lfr0m tie I,stiage Record, Nor. 2l.l


Br!lllant Meteor passed this place ON Sunday
evening al o'clVck-its direction was from no
70 oou west lhe tai was Of great length aud bright
ness ana from The BODY Of the tire fused do
rom Iaise piece OF burning iron TLeseets were So
1sh 'hai one might have picked up pin, disappeared
suddenly aus almost every person who saw IL seemed
confident that 4 fell near him. La a minute and an
nan oI Two INMATES tand think four OF iive) AFTER
The light ceased. souud like cannon was hra CON,
fail. ''' ''s'e'' appeared 10
We have seen gentleman from WlInnyto,-o,.
nom LoldonsTove-and one from Coatesyille each of
whom had perfect OF this su bime pl.nournnn
hu heJ agree III describing It's appearance aad situa.
ion 10 be similar TO that presented to us Ils
hide and distance must therefore have been nIuc eTea
'ei iIan one could haze well imagined. who saw it,
bht we nope 10 hear more OF this spIeudid and extra
friends.
WlLMINGroN, Dell Nov. PA very bright m eteor
was sseh 10 pass over this place the evening of The
lst November AT 20 minutes before T. IL arose from
TIE n. e aiid travelled ia direction s. W. Ieavius
tiau oI IRE behind IL which marked its u.th lhronpb
tue heavens for very considerable distance IFS size
was equal 10 that OF the tic shane thai of MIA
s"g ioIcb ahd Ito rapidly such pass through our
zehItD Ia about thirty secOuds.lts appearance was
barRed 10y quantity OF falling sparks The same ple
homeho preceded It's exit and minutes after losing
sishi OF II rambling noise like distant aud proITact
ea ptals OF thunder Was heard for upwards ninety
seconds ia the direction of It's flight It's brilI,ancy
was snch, ahd such the lights produced by 1t that
vas equal to that of the when Just emerging from
Tue horiZon.-Ibe greatest light WAS obtained Iwen,y
ueGiees alter its passage across oh
ssf'aIOh was made at The distance OF one mile and
garter direction south from Wilminplon-Obser
yatoHs made at Wilmington do net MAKE The mar.
aiiaA very sensible, which shews lis height Il, have
been al leaIt 40 miles. Another reason whiclnroyess
great elevation is, that the fame by which vas sur
mo"hied was perpendicular, which from its Ieat rapi
diy could only take place ia SeIy dilaed
aho The sparks falling from proved thai il was within
onf sphere of gravitaten. Its disappearance at about
rs de2tees above the horizon and The sparks which
were seen to fall from it induced spectators TO be-
ieve that Il had burst do concur in Ia. saue
opinion htst, because the same phenomena that .ac.
cohhpahied its apparent dissolution also marked IFS an
parent bib II 10 probable that sparks were emitted in
tns whole OF its progress but that their peYpeHdicta
Hy ' may use the eNpressiOn) when over head made
mem resemble line Of fire; SECONDLY TO have burst
IL must have been solid body cOntanng air a fluid
and then The fragments woulG have been seen IN the
OlbeT case no explosion would have attended lis too
great expansion II may he that its progress n has
come ~ contact with T.ass Of electric fud the com
bus0n ofwhich occasiOned HE we heard for IL
evident tbat the uppeT part Of our aimAs phete is
hed With ibe electric 1ud which has been TRACED TO
the height Of 225 miles.
u Is our opinion that this meteor was Tying la tan
gent as much as ceEuipeal influence would a!ioy
A. aud that The uiheI its the higher its situation
mhst bdye Oten PYRNSCOPE.