{"newspaper_name": "Mobile register and journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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A MErEoR.-A friend on board the U. s schooner Onka. hyse, has favored the Norfolk Bea. con with the following :-On the night of the 26th o May, ls45, about II o'clock, then being m lat. 13 N. lon. 75 w., there appeared one of the most brilliant meieoric phenomena that have ever wit messed. The whole heavens were Illuminated, and seemed for moment as if about to break out into one extened sheet of flame. The meteor itself was about one-third the size of the full moon; it ap- peared nearly in the zenith, and travelled with an accelerated velocity from N. w. to s. E., perform ing an area of about 25 deg it then exploded, dyid ing ipto several fragments, looking like so many shooting stars Between eight and ten minutes after the explosion, we heard a report resembling dis; but more Prp'onser ''he te a1s spS about I2O miles from the spot where the explosion took place. What sensations it would have pro- duced in one who could have been within mile or two of it, can be but faintly imagined. l have no doubt that it was an Hrolle of the first class. The captain, officer of the deck, and myself were the on ly officers that had the pleasure of witnessing this phenomenon; and boIh concur with me in pronoun- cipg it to be Tuely, awfully grand,