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And much about the fame time,! to encreafe ourWonder, 
there began on a fudden to appear, low under the Pole 
and very near due North, three or four lucid Areas like 
Clouds, difcovering themfelves, in the pure but very black 
Sky, by their yellowifh Light. Thefe, as they broke out 
at once, fo after they had continued a few Minutes, difap- 
peared as quick as if a Curtain had been drawn over 
them.- Nor were they of any determined Figure, butboth 
in Shape and Size might properly be compared to fmall 
Clouds illuminated by the full Moon, but brighter. 
Not long after this, from above the aforefaid two £ 4 . 
wln£, there arofe a very great Pjramidal Figure, like 
a Spear , fharp at the Top, whofe Sides were inclined to 
each other with an Angle of about four or five Degrees, 
and which feemed to reach up to the Zenith or beyond it. 
This was carried with an equable and not very flow Mo* 
tion, from the N. E. where it arofe, into the N. W. where 
it difappeared, dill keeping in a perpendicular Situati- 
on, or very near it ; and palling fucceffively over all the 
Stars of the Little Bear, did not efface the fmaller ones in 
the Tail, which are but of the Fifth Magnitude ; fuch was 
the extream Rarity and Perfpicuity of the Matter where- 
of it confided. 
This fingle Beam was fo far remarkable above all 
thofe that for a great while before had preceeded it, or. 
that followed it, that if the Situation thereof among the 
Circumpolar Stars had at the fame Indant been accurate- 
ly noted, for Example, at London and Oxford, whofe 
Difference of Longitude is well known, we might be ena^ 
abled thereby with fome certainty to pronounce, by its 
diverfitas Afpeffus, concerning the Didance and Height 
thereof ; which were undoubtedly very great, tho’ as yet 
we can no ways determine them. But as this Phenome- 
non found all thofe that are skill’d in the Obfervacion 
<9f the Heavens unprepared, and unacquainted with what 
, ■; ' waSs 
