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I OBSERVED a most beautiful star-shower on the night of the 5th inst., at about a quarter to nine o'clock. It crossed the “tail” of Ursa Major in a direction almost easterly, and slanting towards the earth at about an angle of 30°. At first the phenomenon resembled the flight of a flock of wild geese, but after a little the nearer stars inclined towards the earth more than those farthest away, so that in all I could see about thirty stars. I write to you as the period of recorded star-showers mentioned in Prof. Ansted's Physical Geography, is from Dec. 6th to 13th, and I observed this star-shower on the 5th December.
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WARD, J. Meteoric Shower. Nature 3, 168 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/003168b0
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