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only the Notes of Perfons under the Surprize of the I 
fuddennefs of the Light, ►and no ways pretending to I 
Exadnefs; how^ever, fuch as they are, they abun- | 
dantly evince the Height thereof to have exceeded 6c i 
Englifh Miles, not to fay 38 or 40, as fome would * 
fain have it. 
I was unwilling to leave off, till I had pitcht upon 
fome Hypothefis that might fubjedi the Motion of ; 
this Meteor to a Calculus, that the Curious might be > 
uble to compute the vifible way thereof, either in re- 
fpedl of the Horizon, or among the fixt Stars: This 
I found might be done with tolerable Exadinefs, fup- f 
pofing that it mov’d in the Arch of a Circle concen- 
trick with the Earth, but 60 Geogr. Miles without it; j- 
and that the Point of the firfl Explofion was over the i 
Lar. of 50 ° 40' and 3® 40' to the Weft of London', and 5 
that of the laft Extinction over Lat. 47°. 40' with 
4°. 5'o' Longitude: The Time being iixt to 8 ? 
Minutes paft Eight at London, Hence it will be eafy, ; 
by a Trigonometrical Procefs, to obtain the vifible Al- ^ 
titude and Azimuth of the Meteor at either of its Ex- 
plefions, as feen from any Place whofe Longitude and • 
Latitude is know^n ; and from the Time given, the 
Points in the Sphere of Stars anfwering to thofe Azi- 
muths and Altitudes are readily deduced. Let thofe ! 
that contend for a much lefs Height of this Meteor try ; 
if they can on fuch their Suppofition reconcile the feveral i 
Phanowena before recited with one another, and with 
' the Obfervation of the Rev. Mr. William Ella, Redior | 
of Famfton in Nottingha'mlliire, between Gainsborough | 
and Bedford, which for its Exatftnels I muft not omit. j 
Here at 8'^ f the Meteor W’as feen to pals precifely in | 
the middle between Sirius and the Fore* Foot of Canis j 
major, moving obliquely to the Southward, in a Line ! 
whofe Direction feem’d to be from the middle between ] 
the ,| 
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