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there is a Tradition among them, that in November , 1 66%, 
a Star appear’d below the Body of the Moon* within the 
Horns of it. In the next place he mentions the Evening 
Glade ; firft: taken notice of by Dr. Children to beconftantly 
obferv’d there in February , and a little before and after that 
Month; adding, that the Caufe of that Appearance mud be 
fought for above the Atmofphere. Then he' gives a new 
Method of his own for finding the Julian Period, adding a 
Table for that purpofe-; which -concludes this Lettet. 
The next relates the Appearances of feveral uncommon 
Rainbows and Mock Suns. On the id of January , in a clear 
Sky, hot very cold ; the Sun was from Ten o’ Clock, for 
near Three Hours after, attended with four Parhelia, in the 
midft whereof were two Rainbows. 
About fix Weeks after this, in a Day much colder than 
ufed to be at that time cf the Year, the Air a little hazy, 
a little after One o’clock, for about half an hour, four 
Mock-Suns were feen. 
He obferves, that thefe Appearances with them are of 
great varieties, each ufually differing in fome refpetd from 
the other. 
The next Letter dated, Nov. 26th. to the fame Perfon/has 
the Relation of a flrange Difcovcry of the Murder of a Per- 
fon in England , to his Brother Jofeph Beacon, at that time at 
Boflon , in a Dream ; the Perfon wounded appearing with 
the Wound on his Head 5 with the Atteftations of leveral 
Perfons, as to the Truth of it. The Information by the 
Dream was on the id of May , 1687, about Five o’ Clock in 
the Morning; on the very fame Day his Brother dy’d at 
London , of the Wounds he had receiv’d in April before: Of 
which Misfortune his Brother Jofeph Beacon neither had, nor 
could have any notice, till the next Communication by 
Shipping, towards the latter end of June following; when 
he had -a Letter of his Brother’s Death, and the Caufe. of 
it, 
