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PHILOSOPHICAL MAG AZINI E. 
DECEMBER ‘1798. 
I. Account of a remarkable fiery. Meteor. feen in-Gafcony on 
the 24th of July 1790; by Ms Baunin,. Profeffor-of 
Philofophy at Pau.. With. fome .Odbfervations on: Fire- 
Balls, and Shooting-Stars, by Profeffor CHLADNI ‘at 
Wittenberg. _ From’ Magazin fir das Neuefte aus der 
Phyfik, 4y Profeffar Voicr. Vol. XI. 
Aso UT half an hour after ten o’clock,on Sunday 
evening, July 24, 1790, as I was walking in the court of 
the caftle of Mormes, along with M. de Carrits Barbotan, 
the atmofphere being perfectly calm and ferene, and not a 
cloud to be feen, we found ourfelves furrounded, all of, a 
fudden, by a whitifh clear light, which obfcured that of "tie 
moon, though the latter fhone with great luftre, as it wanted 
‘only thirty hours of being at the full. On looking upwards we 
obferyed, almoft in our zenith, a fire-ball of alarger diameter 
than the moon. It had behind it a tail, the length of 
which feemed to be equal to about five or fix times the 
diameter of the body: at the place where it was conneéted 
with the body it had about the fame breadth, and decreafed 
gradually till it ended in a point. The ball and the tail 
were of a pale white colour; but the point of the latter was 
Vou.il, —— Q: almoft 
