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near to the Colour of that pale Fite we fee in feme 
forts of Lightning. 
About this time the Ground Weftward was all co- 
ver’d with an odd fort of Mill:, the fame from which I 
remember lad Year a great many People faid there 
came an ill fmell, which I did not at all perceive ; how- 
ever as I remember it to be the very fame Appearance, I 
thought it might not be improper juft to take notice of it. 
About 10 the Phenomenon very much decreas’d, 
and fo continued till after 1 1 , only fending up now and 
then 2. or 3 Streams. At half an Hour after ii it was 
again pretty much encreas’d, and I faw it^^again fend 
out fome Streams almoft as confiderable .as any I had 
before feen this Evening ; the Arch yet continued, but 
not fo entire ; and from wdiat I could judge, its mid- 
dle was fome Degrees nearer the North than when I 
firft took notice of it. Till a quarterof an Hour before 
iz the light continually abated, .and then I left it; but ' 
a Watchman, 1 order’d. to bring* me an Account of it 
next Morning, tells me it continued till towards Day- 
break, but never ftream’d . remarkably after I w’enc a- 
way. 
Tho’ I could. not this time fee any Stars through 
vthe black Matter at Bottom, l am fenfible it was not a 
Cloud, tho’ tit bore the refemblance of one; for when 
a real Cloud (as fevcral fmall ones didj came over 
any part of it, their difference was very confpicuous. 
I have ftnee receiv’d two Letters, one from Wislkh 
in the Mle of El'^^ the other from within iq Miles of 
the ' both which take notice of it, tho’ with no 
further Particulars, than that on Saturday Night, they 
had feen the fame Light, tho’ not fo confiderable, as in 
fethe beginning of March the iaft Year, 
II. Guil- 
