Mr. Auzert’s Account of two Meteors. | 143 
“Welt. I was at the foot of Lewifham-bridge, when I was much 
farprifed at perceiving fuddenly a kind of glimmering light, 
refembling faint but quickly repeated flafhes of lightning; foon 
after which the light increafed much towards the North Weft; 
I turned dire€tly to it, and faw it form into a large luminous 
body like ele€trical fire, with a tinge of blue round its edges. 
It rofe from the hazy part of the atmofphere (which I have 
obferved might be about 8° high), and moved at firft almoft in 
a vertical direCtion, changing its fize and figure continually, 
having to me all the appearances of fucceflive inflammation, 
and not of a folid body; it was fometimes round, at others 
oval and oblong, with its longeft diameter in the line of its 
motion ; although it had got high enough to be quite out of 
the hazy part of the horizon, it was furrounded and accom- 
panied in its whole courfe with a kind of whitifh mf or light 
vapour. ‘The place from which it rofe was about 38° from 
the north towards the weft. After rifing a little way perpen- 
dicularly, it made its progrefs in a curve, fo ds to be at the 
higheft when it had reached due eaft, at an altitude of about 
35°; after which, continuing a few degrees beyond the eatt, 
and being about 30° high, it left behind it feveral globules of 
various fhapes; the firft which detached itfelf being very fmall, 
and the others gradually larger and larger, until the laft was 
nearly as large as the remaining preceding body ‘foon after- 
“wards they all extinguifhed gradually, like the bright ‘flars of 
a fky-rocket, with fome inclination downwards, which ap- 
pearance might probably arife from the upper parts of the fepa- 
‘rate bodies extinguifhing before’the lower ones. ‘The meteor 
was at the brighteft and at the largeft juft before its feparation ; 
I eftimated its magnitude or area then to be equivalent to two 
full moons. Its light, during its whole courfe, was fo great, 
“VoL. LXXIV. Q. ‘that 
