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Wefl to the true Eafl, there did not appear any ftgri'of 
Light to arife from, or joyn to, the Horizon ; but on the 
contrary, what appeared to be an exceeding black and dif- 
mal Cloud Teem’d to hang over all that part of it. Yet 
was it no Cloud, but only the fereneSky more than or- 
dinary pure and limpid, To that the bright Stars Ihone 
clearly in it, and particularly Cauda Cygni then very low 
in th e North; the great Blacknefs manifeftly proceeding 
from the Neighbourhood of the Light which was colleded 
above it. For the Light had now put on a Form quite 
different from all that we have hitherto defcribed, and 
had falhioned it felf into the Shape of two Lamina or 
Streaks, lying in a Pofition parallel to the Horizon, whofe 
Edges were but ill terminated. They extended them- 
felves from the AT. by E. to the North Eafl, and were each 
about a Degree broad ; the undermoft about eight or nine 
Degrees high, and the other about four or five Degrees 
over it ; thefe kept their Places for a long time, and made 
the Sky To light, that I believe a Man might eafily have 
read an ordinary Print by the Help thereof. 
Whilft we flood aftonilhed at this furprizing Sight, 
and expe&ing what was further to come, the Northern 
End of the upper Lamina by degrees bent downwards, 
and at lenejh clofed with the End of the other that was 
under it, fSas to fhut up on the Northfide an intermedi- 
ate Space, which ftill continued open to the Eaft. Not 
long after this, in the faid included Space, we faw a great 
Number of (mall Columns or whitifh Streaks to appear fud- 
denly, er tdt to the Horizon, and reaching from the one 
Lamina to the other 5 which inftantly difappearing were 
too quick for the Eye, To that we could not judge whe- 
ther they arofe from the Under or fell from the Upper, 
but by their hidden Alterations they made fuch an Ap- 
pearance, as might well be taken to refemble the Conflids 
of Men in Battle. 
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