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That we might by the fame Scheme fliew the Appear- 
ance of the laft Hours, after Midnight ; the Reader is defi- 
red to take notice that we have made the Light atj?, much 
bigger than what appeared in the Weft about Ten of the 
Clock ; lb as to reprefent truly that other. In this Cafe 
the Point ^ muft, by the Imagination, be fuppofed 
transferred to the InterfeCtion of the Horizon and Meri- 
dian under the Pole. And that we might the better be 
underftood in what follows, we have made this Ihort 
Recapitulation as annex’d to, and explicative of, the 
Scheme, which could by no means be contrived to anfwer 
the wonderful Variety this Phenomenon afforded ; fince 
even the Eye of no one fingle Obferver, was fufficient to 
follow it in the Suddennefs and Frequency of its Alte- 
rations. 
Thus far I have attempted to deferibe what was feen, 
and am heartily forry I can fay no more as to the firfl 
and moft (iirprizing Part thereof, which however frightful 
and amazing it might feem to the vulgar Beholder, would 
have been to me a moft agreeable and wilh’d for Specta- 
cle ; for I then fhould have contemplated fropriis oculis 
all the leveral Sorts of Meteors I remember to have hi- 
therto heard or read of. This was the only one I had 
not as yet feen, and of which I began to defpair, fince ic 
is certain it hath not happen’d to any remarkable Degree 
in this Part of England fince I was born ; nor is the like 
recorded in the Englijh Annals f\ incethe Year of our Lord 
1574, that is above One Hundred and Forty Years ago, 
in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Then, as we are told 
by the Hiftorians of thole times, Cambden and Stow, Eye- 
Witneftes of fufffeient credit, for two Nights fuccelfive- 
ly, viz. on the 14 th and 1 $th of November that Year, 
much the fame wonderful Phenomena were leen, with 
almoft all the fameCircumftancesas now. 
Nor 
