\ fomerlate fiery Metedrs..o. 207 
afterwards: «This, however; continued, its .cburfe,, becoming 
more! conmpac, ior: perhaps re-uniting,;and,/feems to have’ un- 
gergone other: Gmiuar:explofons before it, jeft our afland; and 
again upomtheccontinent *.: ‘The  ditterent accounts: tetid to 
fhew, that its firft feparation!or burfting happened fomewhere 
ever Lincolnfhire, perhaps near; the commencement: of the 
fens.» Many obfervers did-not get fight of it till after this pe- 
riod, and therefore never defertbe it. as.a fingle ball.. There 
appears tobe fome deception, im conféquence of which {peGa- 
tors are led to believe; ‘that aimeteor is extinguithed, by thefe 
explofions; for the fame opinion was formed of this in feveral 
= its: courfe, a we nee indeiderstive ovidence of 
become ssa Gok a time snbsdisealy afer their atic 
or merely appear fo'on account of the greater, preceding light; 
fince they are’ always :defcribed as.- gga anal: luminovs» the. 
inftant they burft rs SOOhE UN sift ibs Sle in ! 
Tt .is jobfervable,: that the ~~ caer; in. ahaa meteor cor 
refpondsiiwith the period in which «it fuffered a deviation from 
#ts courfe, as if there was fome conhexion: between thofe two 
eircumftances ;) and there are traces of: fomething of the fame 
kind having happened ‘to: other: metebrs. If the explofion be. 
any fort of effort, we cannot wonder:that the body :fhotld be 
moved by. it from ‘a flraight lme ;'but.on theiother thand’ it 
feems equally probable, that-if the. ‘meteor be forced, any 
_caufe, to change its directions:the : eye thould: b be,ia 
ome or feparation of ‘its parts.i) 9 4) éiilog: 
OF § 43 Nothing relative to thefe meteors: ficikéea: a Behpidee’ 
with fo much aftoniffyment as the exceflave light: they afford, 
_* For another inftance of repeated explofions Bas Mem, de l’Ac.. des:Scienc.. 
f 7 s Ps. 23. 
fufficient 
