I: A defcriptitn of the Phenomenon of March 6 % laft, as it 
was Jeen on the Ocean, near the Coaft of Spain. With an 
Account of the return of the fame fort of appearance, on 
March 31, and April z. and 2. following. 
X-N-ourJaft, we. endeavour’d ta give the PubUck as good- 
I an Account of the late furprizing Meteor, feen in the 
Heavens, on the fixth of March laft, as could be gathered 
from the feveral Relations of very diftant Spe&ators, which 
had then come to the Royal Society’s Notice. And fince then, 
we can only add thereto, that at Paris, the. light was fo in- 
confiderable, that it was not regarded : But from a Letter to 
Mr. Alexander Geekie, Surgeon, dated on Board a Ship in Ne~ 
•vis Road, in America, April 19.- 1716. we have copied the 
following Paffage. “ On the fixth of March, at 9 a Clock 
** in the Evening, we, being then in the Latitude of 4 f*. 36'. 
fC (qff pfj the N.;JV. Coaft of Spain). \ cl ear Cloud, appea- 
<f red Eafi of us, not far diftant from our Zenith, which 
<e afterwards darted it felf forth into a number of Rays of 
“ Light, every way like the Tail of a Comet, of fuch a 
ic great Length, that it reach’d vyithin a fliort way of the 
'1 Horizon. There likewife appear’d a Body of Light, 
ff£ N.N.E. of us, and continued as Light almoftas Day, till, 
st after 12 a, Clock. It appear’d at a gooddiltaace from us, 
and darknedon afudden. 
Hence it fhould feem, that the Vapour which caufed this 
Appearance, arofe indifferently out of the deep Ocean Sea, 
as well as from the Land; by which we may conclude the 
great Subtilty of the Matter thereof, fince it could permeate 
fo great a Quantity of Water, and yet retain its Velocity 
which is a Circumftance deferving the further confideration 
of the Curious. 
But fince this, moft of the fame Thanomena have been repeat- 
ed three feveral Nights fuccefFively,™*.. On the laft of Marcb ? 
and firft and feeond.of April. The belt and fulleft Defcrip- 
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