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its courfe from South to North : It W2s broad at one - 
end, and fmall at the other , and was by fome thought 
to refemble a Trumpet, and moved with the broad end 
forctnofV. I cannot give fo particular an Account as I 
could with 5 for having drawn the Curtain of the Win- 
dow where I was reading, I faw nothing, fave a fudden 
flafh of Light, which I took no norice of (fuch Corus- 
cations being frequent in Summer Evenings without 
Thunder, which I at firft expe&ed) till the next Day, 
that many Perfons were talking of the Appearance 5 
wh'ch was fo fudden and bright, that they were ftartled 
to fee their own Shadows, when neither Sun or Moon 
fhone upon them. This is pretty odd, that all Perfons 
(rho’ at many Miles diftance from each other, when they 
fiw it) thought it fell within three or four Furlongs of 
them, and that it went out with bright Sparklings at 
the fmall end. An Ingenious Clergyman told me, that 
it was the ftrangeft deceptio vifns he was ever fenfible 
of, if it was not a'bfolutely extinguifh’d within a few 
paces of him 5 and yet others faw it many Miles off, 
further North, in a few Moments. Pardon, good Sir, 
this imperfedt Account, it being all that came to the 
notice of, 
Sir, 
Leedei , May Your very humble and mojl 
3 l . 1 7 1 °. 
Obedient Servant , 
Ralph Thokesby. 
P. S. It has been likewife feen in the Counties of 
Nottingham and Derby , as well as York and Lancaster, 
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