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being then fet. Some People obferved tall Cones ro 
arife in the Eaft, and to be carryed to the Weft pretty 
fwiftly in an ered Pofition, but I faw them not. It has 
been reprefented here in all forts of Appearances, Ar- 
mies, Battles, dv and has put abundance of People 
in difmal Frights : But I had not an Imagination ftrong 
enough for it, 
1 6 . IVill, Maffndfr. 
\l. J further relation of the fatne- Jfpearance as 
feeji at Dublin, communicated to the Tuhlip?er 
by an unlqiown Hand. 
I T is with pleafure that I now give you the trouble 
of reading the enfuing Account of the furprizing 
Lights which on Tuefday the tenth of November 
we faw in the Northern Semicircle of our Horizon, 
The Afternoon was very Calm and Serene; about 
fix in the Evening the Sky was ting’d with a ftrange 
kind of Light, and fomc Streams began to projed from 
the North and North Eaft. One of them arofe about 
N by E- and was nearly a Subtenfe of an Arc between 
that and S. W. by Weft ; it was a little curvated toward 
the Sun, and what I faw of it (for the North part of 
the Horizon conceal’d by Houfes) very much re- 
fembied the tail of a Comet : About the fame time 
there was one or two which arofe in the Eaft, afeend- 
ing obliquely fo as to leave she Zenith feveral Degrees 
to the Northward, 
Thefe Strid continu’d to appear and difappear alternate- 
ly till toward Eight in the Evening ; they were Pyramidal, 
and their Vertices frequently projeded feveral Degrees 
to the South of our Zenith. 
Between 
