Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . e meteors, for themotions which they exhibited, or for thetrains which, in manj instances, they leftbehind them. And, if this agent be sup-posed to have some connection witli thelight and he
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Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . e meteors, for themotions which they exhibited, or for thetrains which, in manj instances, they leftbehind them. And, if this agent be sup-posed to have some connection witli thelight and heat which they exhibited, it isto be borne in mind, that the compressionof the air which must result from therapid progress of large bodies through it, is a sufficient cause of this. Magnetism has also been assigned as theprincipal agent concerned in producingthe meteoric shower. The aurora borealis, and the remarkable auroral arches whichoccasionally appear in the skj-, have beenfound to have peculiar relations to themagnetism of the earth, arranging them-selves in obedience to the laws of magneticattraction. Something of this kind wassupposed by some to appear during themeteoric phenomenon, especially in theposition of the apparent center or radiant-point, which was, as noticed by manyobservers, very nearly in the place towardswhich the dipping-needle is directed. 334 OUR FIRST CENTURY.—177G-1876.. RK>rARKAIlI.E MKTFitRIO OISPLAY ON THE MISSISHIflI. From other observations, liowever, itappears tliat the radiant-point was notstationary with respect to tlie meridian, but acconii):inied tliestars in their westerlyprogress; tlie apparent eoineiiknce withtlie polo of the dippinp;-n<eille being, according to this, ])urely accidental. According to the view that has beentaken, by some, of tlie origin of meteoricstones, namely, that of ascribing them toterrestrial comets, the hypothesis has beensuggested, that the meteors in questionmight have a similar origin. But thebody which af