 From one o'clock AM till after daylight, there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens. It appeared like meteors bursting in every direction. The sky at the time was clear, the stars and moon bright, with streaks of light and thin white clouds interspersed...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 1361834Full view - About this book
 | Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...day and month on which they have most generally been seen: "From one o'clock AM till after daylight, there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens....interspersed in the sky. On landing in the morning I inquired of the Arabs if they pad noticed the above. They said they had b.een observing it most of... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...ship .Restitution, gives the following account of it: — "From one o'clock AM till after daylight, there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens....interspersed in the sky. On landing in the morning, I inquired of the Arabs if they had noticed the above. They said they had been observing it most of... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Educational sociology - 1850 - 586 pages
...month on which they have most generally been seen: — "From one o'clock, AM, tiîl after daylight, there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens....interspersed in the sky. On landing in the morning, I inquired of the Arabs if they had noticed the above. They saiJ th«-y had been observing it most... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 pages
...month on which they have most generally been seen : — " From one o'clock, AM, till after daylight, there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens....interspersed in the sky. On landing in the morning, I inquired of the Arabs if they had noticed the above. They said they 114 115 had been observing it... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...ship Restitution, gives the following account of it : — " From one o'clock AM till after daylight, there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens....interspersed in the sky. On landing in the morning, I inquired of the Arabs if they had noticed the above. They said they had been observing it most of... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1867 - 888 pages
...in the Red Sea, off Mocha, thus describes the latter : — " From i o'clock AM till after daylight, there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens....interspersed in the sky. On landing in the morning, I inquired of the Arabs if they had noticed the above. They said they had been observing it most of... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1896 - 906 pages
...Hammond, of the ship Restitution, then in the Red Sea, off Mocha, says : ' ' From I am until daylight there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens....appeared like meteors bursting in every direction. On landing in the morning I inquired of the Arabs if they had noticed the above. They said they had... | |
 | 1871 - 778 pages
...November I3th. Captain Hammond, then on the Red Sea, says: — " From one o'clock till after daylight there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens....appeared like meteors bursting in every direction. On landing in the morning I inquired of the Arabs if they had noticed it. They said they had been observing... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1877 - 968 pages
...in the Red Sea, off Mocha, thus describes the latter : — " From I o'clock AM till after daylight, there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens. It appeared like meteors bursting in eveiy direction. The sky at the time was clear, the stars and Moon bright, with streaks of light and... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - Astronomy - 1887 - 886 pages
...Restitution, gives the following account of it: " From one o'clock in the morning, till after daylight, there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens....interspersed in the sky. On landing in the morning I inquired of the Arabs if they had noticed the above. They said they had been observing it most of... | |
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