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the morning, flood from 31° to 33° in the open air, on deck. Their fiery 

 appearance was much the fame as that of the Northern Lights; they 

 were obferved fhootlng up to the zenith in columns or ftreams, of a 

 pale light, from 



a dark fegment as a bafe 



the horizon, and 



often fpread over the whole Southern hemifphere; fometimes thefe 

 lights were fo tranfparent, that ilars could be obferved through 

 them, and at other times the ftream feemed to be white and more 



denfe or opaque, and would 



tranfmit the light of the ftars 



We faw the meteors on February the i8th, 19th, 20th, 21ft, 26th, 

 and on March 1 5th^ and 1 6 th. 



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OME of the moil remarkable and general changes of our atmo- 

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perfed, and will ftill remain fo, for want of a fufficient number of 

 accurate and faithful obfervations ; and becaufe mankind is ftrongly 

 inclined to reap the benefit of their ov/n labours as foon as poffible, 

 without leaving it to poflerity, to make the conclufion from pre- 



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mifes, for which the prefent, a fecond, and perhaps a third age 

 ^ould colled the materials. As foon as we have a tolerable number 



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of fads before us, we begin to build thereon a fyflem, filling up 



and doubtful inaccurate experiments the 



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