212 Dr. Bracpen’s Account of 
4. In the Morning Chronicle of Sept. 19. is ‘inferted a letter 
from Newton Ardes, 7 miles eaft of Belfaft, in Ireland, cor- 
-sefponding fo well with Mr. Epczwortu’s in the defcription 
of the meteor, as to appear very good authority. The altitude 
is there given as 16°, whence a height of 58 miles with the 
obfervation at Whitby. 
5. Mr. More, Secretary to the Society for the encourage= 
ment of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, faw the meteor 
as he was riding about three miles $.W. of Brofeley in Shrop~ 
fhire, and judged it to be elevated 35°. By a perpendicular 
drawn from this fpot to its fuppoted path in Lincolnfhire, its 
height came out 59 miles. ae | 
6. ‘The altitude of 25° determined at’ Windfor I take to be 
one of thofe on which moft reliance can be placed, becaufe the 
gentlemen prefent, two ‘of them Fellows of the Royal ‘So- 
ciety, were remarkably well qualified for fuch an’ eftimation. 
The letter you received, Sir, from Profeffor ALLAMAND of 
Leyden, mentions that the meteor was feen there about 30° 
above the horizon, and the terms in which it is deferibed in 
the Dutch news-papers * agree with this account. Its height 
hence calculated appears to be 58 miles. , 
>. Mr. THomas’Squire, of. Folkftone, obferved the meteor 
over his houfe, as he was in the pofture of leaning back againft 
a hedge; he afterwards tried “ its'ranging with the roof by a 
‘¢ quadrant, and found it 68°F above the horizon.” Reducing 
this obfervation to the perpendicular dropped from Windfor on 
the path of the meteor, its height comes out 54 or 55 milés. 
Mr.’ Squrre’s altitude, determmed by a fixed object, ‘is con~ 
firmed by the eftimate of feveral perfons at Ramfgate. 
* Amfterdamifche Courant, Aug. we 1783. 
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