( 5>8i' ) 
Obfervation. But all the Relations, however otherwile 
differing, agree in this, that the Splendour was little 
inferior to that of the Sun; that within doors the 
Candles gave no manner of Light, and in the Streets nor 
only all the Stars difappear’d, but the Moon then Nine 
Days old, and high near the Meridian, the Sky being 
very clear, was fo far effaced as to be fcarce leen, at 
leaft not to caff a Shade, even where the Beams of 
the Meteor were intercepted by the Houfes : fo that for 
Tome few Seconds of Time, in all refpeds it refembled > 
perfedt Day, 
The Time when this happen’d was generally rec- 
koned at a quarter paft Eight; but by the more ac’ 
curate Account of the Rev. Mr. Pound ( who only law 
the Light J agreeing with what has been lent us from 
the Pariftan Obfervatory, it appears to have been at 
8*^ 8' apparent Time at London. And the Sun being 
then in 9 r gr. of ArkSt the R^ht Alcenfion of the 
Mid-Heaven was gr. qy', whereby the Pofition of 
the Sphere of fixt Stars is given. Hence the Lucida 
Pleiadum will be found at that time to have been 
gr. high, in an Azimuth 6 gr. to the Northward 
of the Weft, and confequently the Arch the Meteor 
moved in, was inclined to the Horizon with an An- 
gle of about z 7 gr, having its Node or Interfedion 
therewith, nearly South South Wefl ; as will be more evi- 
dent by what follows. 
At Oxford five Minutes earlier, Mr. John Whitefidel 
R. S. Soc. Keeper of the Ajhmole Mufeum, and very 
skilful in both Mathematical and Phyfical Matters, 
immediately alter the Extindion of the Meteor, made 
hafte out to fee what it might be, and well confider’d 
the Situation of the Track it had left in the Sky : 
He found it to have paft about i r Degree above the 
preceding Shoulder of Orion, and about 3 r above 
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