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time of its appearance, was 9. bes 16 PM. mean time of the 
meridian of. Randers, and it, continued vilible, about half: a 
minute. ie ie ; : ‘ 
ha: How far saath He meteor may have begun I hee no 
ce: to determine with precifion 5 s but, as it was feen in 
Shetland, and at fea between the Lewes and Fort William, and 
appeared to. perfons at Aberdeen and Blair in Athol: afcendin 
from-the northward, and to an obferver in Edinbargh as ‘rifing 
like the planet. Mars, there can be little doubt but its Kt 
commenced beyond the fartheft extremity of this ifland, fome- 
where over the northern ocean. General. Murray FE. R, 
being then at Athol Houfe, faw it pafs over his head. as nearly 
vertical as he could judge, tracing at from about 45° of eleva- 
tion north-north-weftward to 30° or 20° fouth-fouth- ealtward, 
where a range of buildings intercepted i it from his viewe From 
near the zenith.of Athol Houfe, it pafied. on alittle weltward 
of Perth, and probably a little eaftward of Edinbur gh s 3 and con- 
tinuing its progrefs over the fouth of Scotland, and the weflern 
parts of Nerthumberland and the Bifhopric of Durham, , pro- 
ceeded almoft through the middle of Yorkthire, leaving the 
capital of that. county fomewhat to the eaftward. Hitherto’ its 
path’ was as nearly §,S.E. as can be afcertained ; but fomewhere 
near the borders of Yorkthire, or in Lincolnfhire, it appears to 
have gradually deviated to the eaftward, and in the courfe of 
that-deviation to have fuffered the remarkable change already 
- noticed under the denomination of burfting.. After this divi- © 
fion, the compact clutter of fmaller meteors feems to have 
moved for fome time almoft S.E. thus traverfing Cambridge- 
fhire and perhaps the. weftern: confiniés of Suffolk; but gra- 
dually recovering its. original direction, it proceeded over Effex 
and the Straits of Dover, entering, the continent probably not 
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