 I was called up," says Mr. Ellicott, " about 3 o'clock in the morning, to see the shooting stars, as they are called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light...  Transactions of the American Philosophical Society - Page 30by American Philosophical Society - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Science - 1864 - 480 pages
...as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared...earth, toward which they all Inclined more or less. . . ." 1 Pcrtonal Narrative of Travel* to tlif Equinoctial Region*; trans, by Helen Maria Williams,... | |
 | John Vose - Astronomy - 1834 - 230 pages
...as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the Sun after daybreak. The meteors, which, at any one instant of time, appeared...in all possible directions, except from the Earth." Captain Hammond, and his crew, when at Mocha in Arabia, on the 12th of November, 1832, witnessed a... | |
 | John Dalton - Auroras - 1834 - 392 pages
...as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after day-break. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared...in all possible directions, except from the earth, towards which they all inclined more or less, and some of them descended perpendicularly over the vessel... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1838 - 160 pages
...8. When and where was there a very remarkable scene of shooting stars observed ? 9. How is it deall inclined more or less, and some of them descended...that I was in constant expectation of their falling on us." About thirty years previous to this time, a similar phenomenon was observed on the table land... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...as if illuminated with skyrockets, which disappeared only by the light of'thc sun, after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of time, appeared...in all possible directions except from the earth, towards which they all inclined more or less, and some of them descended perpendicularly over the vessel... | |
 | Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...sky-rockets, which disappeared only with the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors, which at ajiy one instant of time appeared as numerous as the stars,...in all possible directions, except from the earth, towards which they all inclined more or less, and some of them Descended perpendicularly over the vessel... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1842 - 344 pages
...as if illuminated with skyrockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun, after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of time, appeared...numerous as the stars, flew in all possible directions except./rom the earth, towards which they all inclined more or less, and some of them descended perpendicularly... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...as if illumiuated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun toward daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared...that I was in constant expectation of their falling on us." The same appearances were seen on the same night by the Capuchin missionary at San Fernando,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared...in all possible directions, except from the earth, towards which they all inclined more or less ; and some of them descended perpendicularly over the... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 896 pages
...asked them lions, except from the earth, toward which they if ever the like had appeared before ? The all inclined more or less ; and some of them descended perpendicularly over the vessel wo were in, so that I was in constant expectation of their falling on us." The same individual states... | |
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