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IX. | Defeription of a Meteor, ahaa Aug. 18, 18 + : 
ee Mr. Tiberius Cavallo, PAR PBS | 
- Read Jan..15,. 1784. 
EING upon the Caftle Terrace at Windfor, in company” 
with my- friend Dr. James Lrnp, Dr. Lockman, Mr. 'T. 
SANDBY, and a few other perfons, we obferved a very extra-= 
ordinary meteor in the fky,-fuch as none of us remembered to- 
have feen before. We ftood upon the north-eaft ‘corner of the 
terrace, where we had a perfeé& view of the whole phenomenon; 
and as every one of the company remarked fome particular 
circumftance, the collection of all which furnifhed the materials 
for this account, it may be prefumed; that this defeription i is 
as true as the nature of the fubject-can admit of. 
The weather was calm, agreeably warm, and the fky was 
ferene, excepting very near the horizon, where an hazinefs juft 
prevented the appearance of the ftars. A narrow, ragged, and 
oblong cloud ftood on the north-weft fide of the heavens, reach- 
ing from the extremity of the hazinefs, which rofe as nigh as 
18 or 20 degrees, and ftretching itfelf for feveral degrees to- 
wards the eaft, in a dire€tion nearly parallel to the horizon. 
It was a little below this cloud, and confequently in the hazy 
part of the atmofphere, about the N. by W. 2 W. point of the 
compafs, 
