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of an Oven : tho’ this exprefleth it but badly, yet I 
know not how to defcribe it better. It Teemed to me 
and others to be finely tinged with various Colours, 
Red-Yellow and Blueilb, and Tent out every way 
from it (except South and South- weft) long flame-co- 
loured Rays, After this had continued about two Mi- 
nutes, its ftiining Light abated, and it left behind it 
for Tome Minutes, fomething like a whitiQi Cloud (like 
in Colour to what the Light on the of M^nch laft; 
left behind it, after the fiery Particles were extinguiftied, 
but thinner). 
M. B. All this while the Moon (hone very bright, 
from which this Corona was not very far diftant, per- 
haps not twenty Degrees, to the North Eaft. After this 
there continued to be fent up many fiery Coloured cr 
Yellowifli dreaming Lights, fometimes more, fome- 
times lefs, now here, now there, all along the North 
part of the Hemifphere, but moftly from the North 
North Eaft All this while fomething like fmall whitifli 
Clouds f which to me Teemed to move towards the Ze- 
nith, or to point a little more Southward, but difap- 
peard as they approached the Moon) were carried ve- 
ry fwiftly, and at very Ihort Intervals, moftly coming 
from the Eaft and North Eaft, bur many alfo from 
North and North Weft. We took but little notice of 
this at firft, fuppofing it had been nothing but the re- 
fledion of the other Lights, or the fhadows of the 
Clouds ( whereof the North parts were pretty full) 
as the ftreams of Light paft behind them: But af laft 
we obfervcd that, when the Lights at any time abated, 
thefe kind of Clouds continued to fly as fwift and 
frequent as ever. This \ faw till Twelve or One next 
Morning : many others faw it next Morning till al- 
moft break of Day, when it appeared much more red 
and fiery than it was in the Evening ; the Moon perhaps. 
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