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H E M ARKS 



ON 



T HE 



SECTION 



III. 



E I E R Y 



METEORS 



FIERY 

 METEORS 



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U R atmofphere is not only frequently charged with 



aqueous particles, which are produd:ive of different ap- 



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pearances and various changes of the weather, but there are beiides, 

 fo many heterogeneous particles difperfed through the whole mafs 

 of the circumambient air, that we are not yet apprized of the quan- 

 tity and variety of them. Accurate obfervers difcover from time to 



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time fome new ones, and make us acquainted with their effeds, 

 when varioufly combined. The eledtric matter has been found of- 

 ten to be one of the curious and powerful ingredients, that enter the 

 mixture of the atmofphere. This matter caufes in various inllance^ 



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different ph^enomena. Light n i n g and Th u n d e r are in all parts 

 of the Globe caufed by it. However we heard from the inhabitants 

 of St. Helena, who were born there, and grown up to a good old 

 age, that they never had obferved a thunder florm on their happy 

 ifle. As the highefl hills on it, and all the rocks furrounding it, are 



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a kind of lava or vitrified flags of drofs, which I fuppcfe are, like 

 all vitrefcenthodies, ^i^dinc p e r fe , ornon-condu6torsv theeledricity 



tmofphere is perhaps not conduded by them, and caufes 



of , th 





therefore no explofion. 



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