FIERY METEOR. 



On ll>e fifth day from the operation, the portion of tongue 

 came away with the h'gatures, leaving a floiighy furface, 

 which "was thrown off on the 11th day, and was fucceeded 

 by a fimiiar (lough; this feparated on the 15th day. The 

 excavation after this gradually filled up; and, on the 201h 

 day, it was completely cicatrized, leaving only a fmall fiflure 

 on that fide of the tongue. 



(To be concluded in our next.) 



XVI. 



Some Account of the large fieri/ Meteorivhich appeared on the 

 fixth of iaji Month (November.) 



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'N^ Sunday evening at half part eight, on the fixth of laft Account of a 

 month, I was fuddenly furprized with an illumination re- " 

 fembling that of a flalh of lightning, but raor^ permanent. 

 The windows of the room in which I was fitting face the 

 fouth, and were not clofed either by the (butters or curtains, 

 but only by Venetian blinds ; through which fome of the com- 

 pany atferted that they faw a large globe of (ire , moving to 

 the weftward. My back was towards the window, fo that 

 I faw only the light which appeared con(iderably blue, and 

 feemed to laft two, or perhaps three feconds. The bluenefs 

 in all probability was not more than that of day-light, which, 

 when contrafied with the light of candles, has a lively blue 

 tinge. 



A fcientific friend of mine, who has favoured me with a 

 fketch.from which the annexed drawings were taken, was 

 walking up Princes Street Soho, and turned upon the fudderi 

 appearance of light, when he faw the meteor pafTing rapidly 

 over St. Ann's church yard, having the appearance of an ob-.- 

 long or elliptical folid, with a fliort radiating eruption from 

 its preceding part, and numerous (parks diverging from its 

 hinder part. He compares it to the burning of a combudible 

 matter in oxigen, and faw it burll into many fparks, which 

 inftantly went out and left extreme darknefs. Its diredion 

 feemed to be to the fouthward of a line fuppofed to crofs 

 Princes Street at right angles, which eftimate would give a 

 courfe about W. S. W. This gentleman faw the great meteor 

 of Auguft 18, 1783, which was then round, and he thiuk^ 

 the prefent quite as large as that. 



