leonids:
Leonid meteor shower 1833
So far I have not found a description of the 1799 Leonids from Jamaica, but the account below indicates what Jamaicans must have seen that November:
Adams Sentinel and General Advertiser, December 2, 1833
On the 12th of November, 1799, there was such a very remarkable exhibition of shooting stars, at Cumana, in South America, and over most of the West India Islands. The following account of it is from the pen of a gentleman who witnessed it. He says, 'I was called up about three o'clock in the morning, to see the shooting stars, as it is called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after day-break.— These meteors appeared as nurnerous as the stars, flying in all possible directions except from the earth, towards which they all inclined more or less, and some of them descended perpendicularly over the vessel we were in, so that I was in constant expectation of their falling on us.'
one bright meteor, 1868
Daily Gleaner, January 24, 1868
lights in the sky
