 | Andrew Ellicott - Florida - 1803 - 510 pages
...morning, I was called up to see the shooting of the stars, (as it is vulgarly termed,) the phenomenon was grand and awful, the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with skyrockets, flying in an infinity of directions, and I was in constant expectation of some of them falling on the... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1809 - 534 pages
...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...which disappeared only by the light of the sun after day break. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared as numerous as the stars, flew in... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 342 pages
...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...with skyrockets, which disappeared only by the light of'thc sun, after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of time, appeared as numerous as... | |
 | Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...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 of time appeared as... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Constellations - 1842 - 346 pages
..." 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1850 - 586 pages
...kind was seen by Mr. Ellicot, 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 any one instant of time appeared as... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1850 - 348 pages
...heavens appeared as if illnminated with skyrockets, which disappeared only by the light of the snn, after daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of time, appeared as nomeroos as the stars, flew in all possible directions except from the earth, towards which they all... | |
 | 1854 - 602 pages
...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...sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun atler day-break. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared as numerous as the stare, flew... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...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...sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun toward daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared as numerous as the stars, flew... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 pages
...kind was seen by Mr. Ellicot, 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 any one instant of time appeared as... | |
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I was called up," says Mr. Ellicou, " 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 skyrockets, which disappeared only by the light... 
