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S46 A SINGULAR METEOR, &.C.
fellow-prisoners, when we saw a most beautiful and sin-;
gular Meteor.—About half an hour after Sun-set, twq
balls appeared in the air above where the Sun had set, re-
sembling the Sun in colour, size, and brightness.—They
were about the height at which the Sun is two hours before
Its. setting.—They lasted about ten minutes, moving almost
imperceptibly towards the South, and giving an amazing
light, when they gradually appeared to dissolve into fiery
smoke, which yeddened the atmosphere to a cqnsjderable
distance round where they bad been, for an hour after-
wards. Some said this was a reflection of the Sun, but it
could not be, as it had been set half an hour, and besides
they would never have dissolved into smoke. Mr. Pigot,
a celebrated astronomer here, with whom I was talking
about ft, says that these are the same class as those 'which
we call falling' Stars, which are large stones continually
floating about in the immense space of Nature, when they
come w'ithin 60 or 70 miles of the earth by which they are
attracted, they fall to it. Several of these stones have
been picked up in different parts of the world, and they
have not been found to resemble any earthly substance.”—
Of the analysis of some of these stones, we spoke in
page 180 of our IVth Number.
PARTICULAR WARNINGS BEFORE DEATH.
“ Mr. Editor,-—Observing in Numbers V. and VI. of your Entertaining:
Sluseum, a list of Extraordinary Deaths by your attentive Correspondent A,
reminded me of some particular Warnings some persons have had of the death
of some of their family, as the following will appear. I could produde several
more instances of the. like nature, but I ratherwave being prolix on this head,
least I should be charged with a ridiculous credulity, by those who disbelieve
every thing of this kind, and only request you to insert the three following in
your Work. The authenticity of which cannot be called in question, as they
occurred to persons of respectability, whose veracity may be fully depended
upon. If A, or any of your Correspondents has any thing of the following
description to communicate, worthy of insertion in your Museum^ by doing
it, I have no doubt will prove entertaining to your numerous readers ; and at
the same time will much oblige, your humble servant, P. B. L.”
Aug. 1803. Iji
fellow-prisoners, when we saw a most beautiful and sin-;
gular Meteor.—About half an hour after Sun-set, twq
balls appeared in the air above where the Sun had set, re-
sembling the Sun in colour, size, and brightness.—They
were about the height at which the Sun is two hours before
Its. setting.—They lasted about ten minutes, moving almost
imperceptibly towards the South, and giving an amazing
light, when they gradually appeared to dissolve into fiery
smoke, which yeddened the atmosphere to a cqnsjderable
distance round where they bad been, for an hour after-
wards. Some said this was a reflection of the Sun, but it
could not be, as it had been set half an hour, and besides
they would never have dissolved into smoke. Mr. Pigot,
a celebrated astronomer here, with whom I was talking
about ft, says that these are the same class as those 'which
we call falling' Stars, which are large stones continually
floating about in the immense space of Nature, when they
come w'ithin 60 or 70 miles of the earth by which they are
attracted, they fall to it. Several of these stones have
been picked up in different parts of the world, and they
have not been found to resemble any earthly substance.”—
Of the analysis of some of these stones, we spoke in
page 180 of our IVth Number.
PARTICULAR WARNINGS BEFORE DEATH.
“ Mr. Editor,-—Observing in Numbers V. and VI. of your Entertaining:
Sluseum, a list of Extraordinary Deaths by your attentive Correspondent A,
reminded me of some particular Warnings some persons have had of the death
of some of their family, as the following will appear. I could produde several
more instances of the. like nature, but I ratherwave being prolix on this head,
least I should be charged with a ridiculous credulity, by those who disbelieve
every thing of this kind, and only request you to insert the three following in
your Work. The authenticity of which cannot be called in question, as they
occurred to persons of respectability, whose veracity may be fully depended
upon. If A, or any of your Correspondents has any thing of the following
description to communicate, worthy of insertion in your Museum^ by doing
it, I have no doubt will prove entertaining to your numerous readers ; and at
the same time will much oblige, your humble servant, P. B. L.”
Aug. 1803. Iji