Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-08-15
Prom our Evening Edition
The Great Eclipse OF 1888.

this early notice is doubt owing 10 some peeua
cumsances connected with the phenomenon ltseii' TOT
many wears past we have had short intervals large
eclipse of the sun-eher total or annusr ana .is ono
has been styled, by way of emnence the ,as' oi ."e
series-for we shall witness another similar ecPse
for sixteen years. total eclipse for nearly genera
lion come and Withhold the soieihh re-
Election that this will be the last remarkable eclipse mar
many of US shall ever be permitted to see! les %
fore another conjunction of the heavenly bodies
will total observation of the suns ray s. ~hoe
generation of species will have passed the ofdeao
DEATH and the reribn,ions Of eternity ana yer tie
undisturbed affairs of the Almighty move on-on
those splendid spheres, launched from his hands, with
deviating certainty fulfil their destined round-Pras
ing their great Creator either in ustre or IN snade bu
we leave our readers morahze upon the subject al
their leisure. We hope the day may be fne-that not
a cloud may obscure the horizon dim The "set'lng
suns" efulgence-,ha all may enjoy the pleasure Of
beholding-though experience the delight OF
such spectacle but the studentof nature, and the num-
BILE worshipper Of its great Author!
In order furnish readers with full and accu-
rate description, have been at considerable pains
and labor calculate the places and times OF this
eclpse-adap.ing them expressly the latitude and
meridian of Brdgeton which find 10 be 80 degrees,
&c minutes morrill, and longitude - degrees 10 minutes
west from Greenwich.
moons appa rent diameter being less at the time than
the suns cannot hide the whole face OF the sum- but VIII
leave the margin visible, like luminous ring TO all per-
sons within a certain distance from the central PATH
The eclipse will occur September 18th, 1888 between
and clock in the afternoon The first point OF con-
tact will be about 81 degrees from the suns verex Tor
op to the right hand precisely at 3h IL MN % seconds
The bepiaaing OF the annuar eclipse will be Al. 35m
n Sec The luminous ring will continue ON. 20 sec,
and end at An 4lm Al Sec Thenearest approach oil the
centres of the and moon will take place atprecisely
All 3sm SO sec and the apparent distance OF the Gen.
tres will then be only 90 2 secondsthe moons appa
rent latitude being Is Sec southof course the ring w
be nearly conceaic, the upper part being small irac
ton broader than the under part account OF the exact
central path falling little the west OF Brdgeton-
This will be by far the interesting portion OF the
1 phenomenon. The sun will in great measure be blot
ted out from the heavcns-and his place supplied py
luminous ring OF surprising beauty and splendor! 10
witness it would recompense the voyage across the
great Atlantic. The shadow will then gradually leave
the SUM- and the eclipse will end 5h som. SO just
fifteen minutes before the to the inhabitants al
1 Bridgeton having continued Oh 32n 55sec.
The above calculations all made TO solar or mp
parent tnc, being that which is usually kept in this
placethe equitacn of time IS about 6m fast deduct
ing these from the times above, you will have mean or
clock time.
As it regards the earth in general and the tract
of country which the eclipse will be central and an
/ nular, il is stated in the American Almanac be as
| follows
Beginning to be visible in the unknown regions
near the north pole, the central annular eclipse will
/ pass through Kamschatka in Asia, the British pos
sessions in North America, not far west Of Hudson's
| Bay Lake Superior Wisconsin territory, Michigan,
the northeast part OF Ohio the southeast part OF Penn
! syvania, the eastern part of Maryland, northeast
part of Virginia, and into the Atlantic Ocean; its
course being from northwest 10 southeast. The
eclipse will be annuar over a space of 429 miles
wide. The ring, in lhe places where it may be seen
will continue only fiom four TO about six and half
minutes. AT Baltmore the eclipse will begin al 6nl.
past r nj. The ring will be formed al 20 min. past
and be central nj 81 min. past A. The eclipse will
end al Az min. past B. At Washington city and
Richmond, the several places will be within a small
| fraction of minute Of the time. AT Raleigh
within about minutes of the same time. But there
no ring will appear. The sun will be a very slender
crescent This crescent will be wider, with horns
I~aa "A lxac oko
and north and northeast from the path of the central
eclipse.
This path fret touches the earth at point near the
north pole, little east of the meridian of Greenwich
In few seconds afterwards 1t attains its greatest
northern latitude, whilst for the first eight minutes IL
moves rapidly westward until is 90 degrees west of
that meridian. In ten minutes after passing out Of
the United States into the Atlantic Ocean, II leaves
the earth at point about "a degrees north latitude
and SO west longitude just hour, SO minutes and
81 seconds after its first touching the earth having
traversed a crcuitous track of 5000 miles in length
and, we said before, the whole anhular path being
420 miles in breadth. Ii reaches, in width, from
Fairfield county, IN Connecticut, nearly 10 Raleigh
in North Carolina
This will be the last central eclipse Of the sun in
the United States until May % 1854. The next 10.
tai eclipse of the sun will be August T. 1869.
PADDLE WHEELS EXPLODED The Great West.
ern performed the voyage to and from the Uaed !
States IN fourteen days-ya steam navigation rs In |
its infancy. The art OF propelllng vessels by the |
WIND actlng on sails mas Decn pTacused Tor upwards
of two thousand years the art ofpropellng them by
machinery, acting on the water, put in melton by i
sieam has scarcely been forty years IN EXISTENCE
The improvement that may yet be Effected in il is |
therefore altogether incaculable and IL already |
seems highly probable that a continuous speed OF /
twenty miles per hour under favorable circumstances
may be obtained. Happily for the world this new art
has hitherto escaped the ammels of the well-nten-
tened, but mistaken legislator; and free, cumulative
competition, in every part of the civilized world but
particularly here and IN the United States, every
day bringing Improvements under notice. all tend
ing to realize the most ardent expectations. The
latest of these is called the Paient Propeller, and is
intended suDersese the of paddles and paddle
boxes, the unslghly appearance OF which is not
greater than their practical evils. They much in
the way and impede the vessels progress by the re-
sstance they offer both to wind and water. Not
wihstandIng the improvements made in them, il has
not yet been found practicable to prevent their
ing great agitation the water TO work them SO
as not TO waste much Of the steam power. The pro-
peller has all the utility and force Of the paddle with
none of its disadvantages. Ii consists according TO
the description Of the patentce -
"Of an Archimedean screw, and is fixed in the
dead wood run Of the vessel The vessel is shaped
and rugged like ether vessels so that the propeller
may be used sngly, or IN conjunction with sails, or
not at all, without impeding the sailing, as the pro-
peller may be unshipped at pleasure. Hence the
vessel is solely dependent either wind or fuel
and loug voyages may be performed with great sa-
to common stsamers) from the engines is mach less
=. - IL II