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Horizon ; from its Periphery a few fhort Pyramidal Streams, 
of the fa^ne luminous Vapour, afcended by a flow and 
nearly uniform Motion, and were exceeding rare fo as 
not to efface the fmallefl of the fix’d Stars ; and in a Mi- 
nute or two vanifh'd : It was very remarkable that the 
Light which that Colletiiion of Vapour emitted was fo 
great, that in the otherwife very dark Night, I cou’d 
thereby ('at three quarters pafl: Ten) read the Title of the 
laft Philo f. Tranfa^. which then happen’d to lye on my 
Desk ; and at four or five Yards diflancefee the fmal- 
left Books in my Study. 
VII. Jn Account of another Very confiderable Au- 
rora Borealis obferVed at Streatham in Surrey, 
by Mr, Thomas Hearne j and Communicated 
by Coll. Francis Nicholfon, R, S. S, 
Aving feen Dr. Halleys Account of the Coruf- 
cations in the Morning and Evening of Movemh. 
lOth. (and the Letter annexed to it from Devonfhire) I 
had the Pleafure to find the Obfervations made upon 
that Appearance very agreeable to what 1 had my 
felf obferved the Evening of that Day ; and to what i 
did not at that time obferve, but had an opportunity 
of obferving in the Night of Dec, ii. I believe much 
more plainly than Dr. Halley had in the Night of No- 
vember lO. 
Dec. nth. About one a Clock at Night (or rather 
in the Morning of Dec. itth) I was called to obferve 
Corufeations which appeared of a much different Co- 
lour, and in a very different manner from any I had 
before feen. 
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