The tongue of time, and star of the states: [electronic resource]: a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth. : American antiquities, remains of giants, geology, volcanoes, Egyptian and Indian magic, diet, dress, drinks, diseases, sleep, somnambulism, trances, resuscitation. : Also an account of persons with two souls, and of five persons who told colors by the touch (1840)
Comstock, Joseph · Hartford: : [s.n.] · leaf 110
ng stars in the air. As we have seen that iron forms a part of meteoric stones, wewould refer the origin of shooting stars to the burning of iron inthe atmosphere, by the ignition of oxygen and hydrogen gases, inthe upper or etherial regions. These shooting stars have beennoticed on the 13th of… … The account is given by Andrew Ellicot, Esq. as seen by him-self, on a voyage from New Orleans to Philadelphia. It is calledan extraordinary flight of meteors, (commonly called shootingstars,) and is described as a phenomenon grand and awful, thewhole heavens appearing as if illuminated with sky…
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