Flavel Roan's Journal

Excerpts on the Comet, September 1811

(A schoolteacher in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Roan kept this journal between 1803 and 1813.)


September 8. A blazing star, like a comet, appeared in the north for some time.

September 18. Comet still visible, going around the north star like the pointers in the bear.





How to cite this:  Flavel Roan, journal, quoted in John Blair Linn, ed., Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pensylvania, 1755-1855 (Harrisburg, Pa.: Lane S. Hart, 1877), p. 398, available at http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1811.


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