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VI. Account of Tm late Northern Aurora's, as 
they were ohferVd at the Vicarage of Sutton at 
Hone in Kent. % the ^Verend Edmund Bar- 
.rell, Trehend of Rochefter. 
O N February the 5th 171^. at Eight at Night, an 
Aurora Borealis appeared. Ft occupied at lead or 
near ~ of the Horizon ; it was low, and fliot out bright 
Rays, and, I believe, would have appeared very light, 
had it not been that the Moon flione at the fame time, 
being about Five Days old, and chat the Aurora dilap- 
pear’d before the Moon fet^ 
Again, on the )oth of March following, there was 
another Aurora Borealis 1 faw it not till paft Nine : 
’was dim then, and its highell Part cover’d the lowed 
Star in Cajftopea’s Chair. It did not feem due lAorth but 
one Point to the iFejl. About Ten it Ihoc out very 
bright 'Rays, high, and tending fomewhat towards one 
another. Near Eleven a Clock, there was (befides the 
northern firightnefs) a long Streak, not very broad, 
extended Eafi and JVc/l' : Which beginning in the 
fenV s^Headf near Hercules-Club, and covering Ar6furus, 
proceeded max. Berenices Hair, and lb went ovtcCorLeonis, 
and thence to the Canicula, and ended a little beyond 
that Star. It flione very bright at fird, but faded away in 
about Eight or Nine Minutes. If it had Motion (which 
I am not lure of) it was Southward. I waited for the 
next Fit of Brightnefs of the Aurora; and in about Se* 
ven Minutes, the Eajlern Kart of the Streak, viz. from the 
Serpent* S‘Head to near Berenices Hairy became vifible again 
tho’dim, and was quite effaced in Four or Five Minutes 
more : And I did not yet perceive any Change of its Place. 
Finis. 
Errata. Page 5’5’6. in the Note, lege Lib.xxxv. pag. j'6;. 
line antepenult, lege AnderUa. 
LO NDOJAf Printed for W. Innys, at the Princes Arms in 
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