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XVII. An Account of fome late fiery Meteors | 5 with Obferva- 
tions. In a Letter fromCharles Blagden, M. D. Phyfician to 
_ the Army, Sec. R. S. io Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart. P. R. S. 
Read February 19, 1784. " 
“oTO SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART. PRS: 
DEAR, SIRy- 
ROM the papers you: were f good as to put into my hands, 
together with fuch other information as I could procure, 
the following account of the two moft remarkable of the late 
meteors is collected. I am fenfible, that it is. in many refpects 
very imperfect ; yet flill it gives a’more fatisfagtory:idea of the 
phzenomena than can well be acquired from the-relation of any 
fingle obferver, and therefore may not be difagreeable to the 
learned Society over which you fo worthily prefide, if no more 
perfect account fhall previoufly have been laid before them. », 
~Thefe meteors were cf the kind known to the ancients. by 
the names of Aapmadecs, Tso, Bolides, Faces, Globi, &c. from 
particular differences i in. their fhape and appearance, and foitie- 
times,. 1 believe, | under the general, term of, Comets *; in the 
noe Philofophical 
iG Anisrorie? sremark, that all the comets feen among them di iappeared without 
fetting, wc pe os nal? apes apepavos (Kopatle) ave devoeag aQancbray cp re ume Te agiteles 
wore (Meteor. lib. I. c. 6.), feems fcarcely applicable but to tranfitory me- 
teors 5 and. many other _expreifions to the fame purpole o occur in that author, 
ou. LXXIV. 5S a es | wis PLINY, 
