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pie call them Cularjt^ perhaps from fome fancied -Si- 
militude to thofe Birds, and becaufe they look up- 
on them as Birds, the Belly and other Parts of which 
are refplendent like our fhining Flies. They are moft 
frequent in watry and morally Ground, and there are 
fome fuch Places, where one may be almofl fure of 
feeing them every Night, if it be dark. In the Fields 
near the Bridge Della Calcafata^ in a Common be- 
longing ter the Parilh of 6*. Marla tn dono. North of 
Bologna^ one of thefe fiery Appearances is very often 
obferved to move a-crofs the Fields, coming from 
another Bridge, called Della FoJJ'a quadra. There 
is another of them in the Fields of Eagnara^ almoft 
Eaft of Bologna,, which fcarce ever fails to appear 
in dark Nights, particularly when it rains, or fnows, 
as alfo in cold and frpfty Weather. Both thefe, I mean 
that near the Bridge of Calcarata, and that in the 
Fields Bagnar a, are very. large; and lam allured, 
that fometimes their Light is equal to that of one of our 
ordinary Faggots or Bundles made of Branches of Vines, 
and that it is fcarce ever lefs than that of the Links 
which our Country People make of Hemp-ftalks, and 
which they light themfelves withal, when they tra- 
vel at Night. That at Bagnara appeared, not long 
fince, to a Gentleman of my Acquaintance, as he 
was travelling that Way • it kept him Company for a 
Mile or better, conflantly .moving before him, and 
cafting a ftronger Light on the Road, than the Link 
he had with him. 
I believe there may be many more in other Plains 
as large as thefe two, though at prefent I have not 
been able to get certain Information of any others. 
Lelfer ones there appear a good many, fome of them 
giving 
