Western Portraiture, And Emigrants' Guide: a Description of Wisconsin ...
Western Portraiture, And Emigrants' Guide: a Description of Wisconsin ...
Daniel S Curtiss
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121 Their course in falling was intermpted, like the lominoos flight of the fire fly. This celestial appearance bore precisely the charac- ter of the phenomenon recorded, as haying been witnessed on the 12th Nov., 1799, by Humboldt and his companions, at Cumana, in South America, where the heayens appeared filled with these bolidea for four entire hours in the early part of the morning ; and thej -were subsequently discoyered to haye been visible simultaneously in Labrador, Qreenlaad, and Germa...ny — oyer a space equal to 921,000 square leagues. Like that, the extent oyer the earth*! surface, on which the meteoric shower which I am more particu- larly describing was observed, was extraordinarily great. At the same hour that it was visible in our camp, it was seen in equal splendor throughout the whole of the valley of the Mississippi* in all the Atlantic cities, in Canada, and in the middle of the At- lantic ; how far farther I am not able to discover." This phenomenon was noticed by the Indians, and re- garded by them as a favorable omen in regard to the -winter's hunt, and next year's crops ; and led them to a sudden and devout 'worship of the Great Spirit — ^to be sure, in their rude way.
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