220 Dr. BLAGDEN’s Account of 
fhort, that many perfons thought it paffed in an oppofite direc. 
tion; for my own part, I Gand myfelf abfolutely unable to 
determine whether the motion was from or toward the §.E. 
Some {pe€tators were of opinion, that it changed its courié the 
moment it became bright, proceeding no longer in the fame 
ftraight line; but my information is not fufficient to determine 
this queftion. see 
My fituation, Sir, was uitienlsile fortunate for afcertaining 
the height of this meteor, as I faw it from your Libraty, 
ranging. immediately over the oppofite roof of your houfe. 
Hence I find by a quadrant that its altitude, even when it be» 
came extinct, could not be lefs than 32°. The upper northern- 
moft end of the train it left bore, as I judge by the compais, 
about 28° northward of true E.and the lower end about 14°. 
I have only one obfervation to compare with this, which was 
made by Mr. Boys of Sandwich. He concludes, from the 
train I imagine, that ‘‘ it difappeared juft under, and a very 
“ little to the weftward” (rather northward) *“ of, the ftar 
yin the foot of Cepheus.” At that time y Cephei was about 
57° high, and bore above 21° to the eaftward of N. whence the 
height of the meteor above the furface of the earth, after all 
proper allowances are made*, muft have been between 40 and 
50 miles. 
As there was no appearance of burfting at the extinétion of 
this fire-ball, fo no report was heard after it; nor did any found 
attend it. 
Some obfervers thought hs meteor alfo near as big as the 
moon, but to me it did not appear above one quarter of her dia- 
meter, which would make its breadth fomewhat above a furlong. 
* It appears from obfervations taken by Gen. Roy, F. R. S, that the bearing 
of Sandwich from London is not fo much to the fouthward of eaft, as it is hid 
down in our maps, 
If 
