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aN C. A. Chant but the height at the beginning was 250 miles, at the end 85 and the velocity was 28 miles persecond. Mr. Davidson shows that the larger the body the less may be the height, though for the largest body the height could not be much below 3 miles. I believe the bodies generally were more than 100 feet in diameter. Tt occurred to me when considering Mr. Denning’s paper that perhaps one reason why the bodies were so generally observed in Ontario was that they were nearest the earth...