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a very entertaining Sight, till fuch time as the Day-break 
began to oWcuri thcfe Lights, whrdi were but faint, 
though fufliciently diftinguilhable. They came none of 
them low'er than to about 30 or 40 degrees of Altitude, 
and (eem’d not to have afcended from the Horizon. The 
Sky was perfectly Serene and Calm, which fccms to be 
one of the concomitant Circumftances attending the Au- 
rora Borealis, of which this was certainly a Species. For 
the Night following a Neighbour gave me notice of a 
flrange ftreaming of Lights feen in the Air, wJiich there* 
.Upon I attended from the Hours of 97 to 11, when a 
Fog came fo thick as to put an end to my Pr fpeiL. but 
during thk whole ttme there afcended out of the E. 
and N. E. a continued fuccellion of whitifli Striae, ari- 
fing from below ; and after changing as it wc'^e into a 
fort of luminous Smoke, pad over head with an incre- 
dible fwifenefs, not inferiour to that of Lightning; and 
as it pad, in Tome part of its Padage, feemed as it w’ere 
guilded, or rather as if the fmokc had been drongly illu- 
minated by ablaze of Fire below. Some of the StH£ 
would begin high in the Air, and a wdiole let of them 
lubordinatc to one another, like Organ Pipes, would 
prefent themfelves with more rapidity than if a Curtain 
had been drawn from before them ; fome of which would 
die away where they fird appeared, and others change into 
a luminous Smoke, and pals on to the Wedvvards with 
an immenfe Swiftnefs And I am of opinion that had 
it not been for the Moon, then ten Days, old and ve- 
ry bright, this for the time would have been reckoned 
as confiderable an Appearance as that of the, 6 th of 
March, 17^6. 
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