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nerve is fach as to require twenty minutes reft, on coming 
from the light, before (when his head is covered with a black 
hood) he is able to difcern fmail telefcopic ftars: an equal 
time is neceflary aftera ftar of the fecond or third magnitude 
pales the field of the telefcope——The paper was not gone 
through at this fitting. 
METEORS. 
Fiery Meteors have been more than ufually common of 
late. 
On Saturday night, the 2d of November, at half paft tem 
o'clock, a meteor, or ball of fire, paffed through the air im- 
mediately over the town of Pocklington, accompanied with 
a moft beautiful train of fire refembling the tail of a rocket, 
and appearing to be about 15 yards in length. The direction 
was from the north-eaft to the fouth or fouth-weft, and con- 
tinued vifible for about half a minute. 
Qn Tuefday morning the 12th of November, about fix 
o'clock, a meteor, or ball of fire, accompanied with a beau- 
tiful train, was obferved in different parts of Staffordfhire. It 
was preceded by feveral flafhes of vivid lightning. 
' The fame, or a fimilar meteor, was feen at the fame time 
in Yorkthire. The following is a defeription of it, as feen at 
Hull and the neighbourhood :—On the morning of the 12th 
of November, between the hours of five and fix, the heavens 
exhibited an awfully grand appearance. The fetting meon 
became partially ob{cured by dark cloudy {pots or {ftreaks : 
in oppofition to her was feen a lunar rainbow of the moft 
beautifully varied colours; after which, the middle region of 
the air was illuminated by meteors croffing each other in 
different dire€tions, and leaving behind them long {parkling 
trains, which were vifible for two or three minutes after thefe 
himinous bodies had difappeared; one of thefe meteors, more 
brilliant than the reft, illuminated the whole firmament, and, 
by its apparent approximation to the earth, created fome 
alarm. The thermometer was that morning at 50 degrees, 
The air, which the preceding night was cold and frofty, 
etonte remarkably clofe and warm, and produced on the 
walls 
