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I. A Letter to Sir Hans Sloane, Sart. ^.S.J^r.Scc 
containing a ^efcription of fotne uncommon Jb. 
pearances obferyed in an Aurora Borealis, by the 
(Reverend Mr. Derham, Canon of Windfor 
cmd R S. ^ wmaior, 
Honoured Sir, 
T he Lumen Boreale is of Jate fo’ common a 
Phcenomenon, that I ftould not think it wrVrth 
troubhng you with that of Sunday olx) kft b* 
ts JhJT ■ Appearances ’of it 
f \n Hants, near Southampton, where I 
then was on our College Bufinefs. ^ ^ 
About 8 in the Evening of that Day, mv Famib. 
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V.™ -It’ To”f "i,? 1.T St 
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u uai m moft of the Streamings I have feen • but in- 
ftead of that, the upper Part was indentpri m 
thT^ Pyramids, fomewhatrefembling 
Limen horeale, the Edges of 
which were gilded with lucid Ravs of rh! ^ “ 
Colour: And all over the CbKr V* T 
Idifcovered a great Commotion or DiftuXan^^^ 
hind them, ns if,fomething wls rolline -or mn-blinn 
behind them. The End of ,hefe“4“4 f 
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