( 4^5 ) 
a tolerable Abridgment of them : and therefore my 
Remarks on the foregoing Years, efpecially on the 
fame Places * and Parts of the World, mod fuffice here. 
The Quantity of Rain and Snow were obferved at 
Naples, Rifing, Bettna , Upfale, Hudickfwald , 
and Southwick : but I find no Defcription of the In- 
ft ruments wherewith they obferved, nor of their Mea- 
fures, except at Southwick and Naples , and there- 
fore am forced to omit all but the two latter, in 
which the Depth is meafured by Englifh Meafure, the 
Southwick , by Inches, and hundredth Parts of an 
Inch ; and the Naples , by Engli/h Inches, and the 
Obferver'sMeafures,2.3 ofwhichmake an Englijhlnch. 
Laftly, That I may omit as little as may be of 
what the illuftrious Obfervers take notice of, I lhall 
add the Meteors they mention, together with foine of 
my own, that happened about the fame Time. 
The firft was a Lumen horeale at Bettna , in the 
Night after Mar . 20 ; and at half an Hour after 8 
on Mar. 22, at Windfor , I faw an unufal fort of 
Streamings in which the Columns were not (as 
ufually) conical, or pointed, nor rifing towards the 
Zenith-point; but were with parallel Sides, and rofe 
perpendicularly to the Horizon. They were very 
bright, emitting a Light equal to that of the Moon 
in her Quarters, Alfo they rofe from a Bmk of Va- 
pours, not curved at Top (as ufually) but lacinated, 
or broken. 
Alfo on Mar. 24, the curious Bettna Gbferver 
faith, there was, the Night before, Lumen Efliam - 
mans boreale ; which was alfo feen at La f anger. 
On Auguji 26 , at Night was a remarkable Lumen 
horeale at Bettna. And the Night before at 10 Hours 
Q. q q 20 
* Vide Tranfaff. n. 433, p. 334. C5 feci. 
