 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...his passage he observed a very singular appearance in the heavens, •which lie thus describes :— About two o'clock in the morning, I was called up to see the shooting of the stars, as it was vulgarly termed. The phenomenon was grand and »wful ; the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...:— About two o'clock in the morning, I •was called up to sec the shooting of the stars, as it was vulgarly termed. The phenomenon was grand and awful...the •whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky rockets, flying in an infinity of directions, and I was in constant expectation of some of them... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1809 - 532 pages
...New-Orleans to Philadelphia. Read 16ih January, 1801 " NOVEMBER 12th 1799, about three o'clock, AM I was called up to see the shooting of the stars (as it is commonly called.) The phenomenon was grand and awful, the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated... | |
 | Jacob Green - Constellations - 1871 - 240 pages
...large portion of the West India Islands. "Nov. 12th, 1799, about 3 o'clock, AM (Mr. Ellicott observes) I was called up to see the shooting of the stars, as it is commonly called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with... | |
 | John Dalton - Auroras - 1834 - 392 pages
...Journal follows. (Vide Transactions American Philosophical Society, vol. 6, page 28.) " About 3 AM I was called up to see the shooting of the stars, as it is commonly called. The phenomenon was grand and awful ; the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated... | |
 | John Vose - Astronomy - 1834 - 230 pages
...line between the United States and the Spanish possessions in North America. He describes them as " grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the Sun after daybreak. The meteors, which, at any one instant... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...up," says Mr. Ellicott, "about 3 o'clock in the morning, to see the shootmg stars, as they are called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with skyrockets, which disappeared only by the light of'thc sun, after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1838 - 160 pages
...I was called up about three o'clock in the morning, to see the shooting of stars, as it is called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after daybreak. These meteors appeared... | |
 | Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...remarkable phenomenon of this kind was seen by Mr. Ellieot, near Cape Florida, which he thus describes ; " The phenomenon was grand and awful ; the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only with the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors, which at ajiy one instant... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...up," he states, " about three 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 illumiuated with sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun toward daybreak. The meteors,... | |
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I was called up about three 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 of the sun after... 
