Wright, Julia McNair, 1840-1903 · Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company · leaf 214
s have beenarrived at. There are within the bounds of our solar system dfceteots anfc SDootmg Stars 191 certain* vast shoals of these small meteoric bodies.They are inconceivably numerous and lying fromone to several miles each from each. A shoal maystretch over hundreds of thousands of miles.… … Meteor iov ohosA. it again and again for ages. But something doesinterfere. The crowded shoal of little bodies crossesthe orbit of our earth, and drawn by her attractionmyriads of meteors desert their ranks and rush toher. In November and April, as may be seen by thissketch, our earth crosses a…
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