The shower [of meteors on Nov. 12-13, 1833] pervaded nearly the whole of North America, having appeared in
nearly equal splendor from the British possessions on
the north to the West-India Islands and Mexico on
the south, and from sixty-one degrees of longitude east
of the American coast, quite to the Pacific Ocean on
the west. Throughout this immense region, the duration was nearly the same. [...]
Soon after this remarkable occurrence, it was ascertained that a similar meteoric shower had appeared in
1799, [...] on the morning of the
twelfth of November; and [...] on the morning of the same thirteenth of
November, in 1830, 1831, and 1832.
Olmsted, Denison, Letters on Astronomy Addressed to a Lady, Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1841, pp. 348-349.
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