Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 17 1131-17-p097

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158 G. A. Chant after leaving Ontario rather than that they fell, but evidence i is not sufficient to finally determine the question. 0 D OF THE METEORS As the meteors were seen at places nearly 2500 miles apart it might be supposed that by obtaining the times when they were seen at the two extremes of this distance we could easily deduce the speed. But the entire time consumed in travelling this dis- tance was very short, perhaps 4 or 5 minutes, and the times Observed ar ft urate enough to be...