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Show TRAXCE METEORIC PHENOM-EXOX- Capt. Joseph Robinson, from Brook-haven, Brook-haven, who sailed from Palermo on the first of February, in the schooner Georgetta Lawrence, arrived yesterday. After a run of thirty-three days in variable weather, he passed the Rock. From here the weather - was rough. Both jibboom and foretopmast were carried away in a gale. In lat. -11 degrees, de-grees, long. 62 degrees, while the captain cap-tain was sitting aft, he was startled by a tremendous explosion, similar to the reverberation of rifled cannon. The flash came whizzing through the skies liko a red-hot hall, glittering with spnikcls, and followed by a brillinnt trail. What is most wonderful is that this aerial visitor came directly in a straight lino, at an anglo of about fifty-(ivo fifty-(ivo degrees, toward tlio schooner. Between Be-tween the two masts, at about two feet from tho deck, tho ball, which seemed to nieasuro from two to thrco feet in diameter, exploded. The reverberation was liko that of cannon discharged in rapid succession. Tho explosion was accompanied by a (lash of light which illuminated tho sea to tho horizon, and which most resembled tho artificial crimson lights that are used it theatres. Immediately after the shock followed a terrific peal of thunder; then, after a lapse of half an hour, tho phenomenon was repented, but in a lesser degree. Tho second ball, which came at the samo anglo and from the samo direction, di-rection, was exactly similar in appearance appear-ance to tho first, but only about half tho size; and tho explosion and the flame of light which it radiated were not so intense as that observed in the first instance. iVcio York Sun. |