refpetting the late Metcor and prefent Osmet. 39 
tention was called off from its immediate objeé& by a moft 
vivid reflection of light from the clouds of that part of the fky; 
as if full day had fprung on me inftantaneoufly. I immedi- 
ately turned round to difcover whence it proceeded, and faw 
a moft luminous body, apparently equal (or larger) to the full 
moon when fhe appears greateft, but certainly very much 
brighter. It was of an exceedingly fplendid gold colour, 
and round, except to the welt, where it was of a {trong red, 
drawing off to purple, and its edge ill defined, and rather 
unequal. It was about 12 or 15° high, and almoft exactly 
in the meridian. It feemed nearly ftationary; but what 
little motion it had, tending to the horizon nearly at a right 
angle.. In about three or four feconds it difappeared, as if 
finking behind the clouds: I obferved no f{parkles, nor any 
luminous train left behind it, nor any explofion. It was 
feen by many at Bury, and was alfo feen at Norwich, and at 
Cromer on the coalt north-eaft of Norwich. Thirty-five 
minutes patt eight was the time I minuted of its appearance : 
but I had not then correéted my watch by an obfervation of 
the fun on the meridian, for many days preceding. It might 
be about eight or ten feconds (as [ did not find it immedi- 
ately, the reflection being very widely extended) between 
my firft being firuck with the refie¢ted light, and the difap- 
pearance of the meteor. Near Norwich tt was obferved to 
throw out red fparks, or globules, as in Kent ; and was no- 
ticed to be of a very white light: and the different colour 
of its light may be naturally referred to different ftates of 
combuftion, and partly to different firata of atmofphere 
through which it paffed. 
I do not at prefent learn it Kas been feen any where much 
weftward of the line which thefe feveral obfervations indi- 
cated. It feems to have been very low; and if more ob- 
fervations could be colleéted and compared, it would pro- 
bably be found to have a very confiderable parallax, and its 
altitude and magnitude might be determined, efpecially if 
obfervations.could be had eatt and weit of this line. But it 
does not feem to have been feen at London, Peterborough, 
Oxtord, or Lincoln; or even at Cambridge, though fo very 
little weft of the places where it was feen. Meth it was fcarcely 
ba poflible 
