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giving as nanch Light as a lighted Torch, and foine 
there are no bigger than the Flame of a com- 
mon Candle. Of thefe, I have been alTured, a good 
many were feen in the Fields of Barifella, All of 
them have the fame Property in refembling both in 
Colour and Light, a. Flame ftrong enough to reded: 
a Luflre upon Neighbouring Objeds all round. 
They are continually in Motion, but this Motion is 
various and uncertain. Sometimes they rife up, at 
others they fink. Sometimes they difappear of a fudden, 
and appear again in an Inftant in fome other Place. 
Commonly they keep hovering about fix Foot from 
the Ground. As they differ in Largenefs, fo they 
do in Figure, fpreading fometimes pretty wide, and 
then again contrading themfelves. Sometimes break- 
ing to all Appearance into two, and a very little 
while after meeting again into one Body ; fometimes 
floating like Waves, and letting drop fome Parts like 
Sparks out of a Fire. I have been alfured, that 
there is no dark Night all the Year round, when 
they do not appear. And in the very Middle of the 
Winter, when the Weather is very cold, and the 
Ground covered with Snow, they are obferved 
more frequently than in the hotteft Summer. The 
Gentleman who obliged me with an Account of that 
at Bagnara^ told me, that if I had a Mind to fee 
it my felf; I might be fure of finding it if I went thi- 
ther in very cold Weather, and in a (harp Froft. Nor 
doth either Rain or Snow in any wife prevent or hin- 
der their Appearance^ on the Contrary, they are more 
frequently obferved, and cafi: a ftronger Light in rainy 
and wet Weather. This lafi: Circumftance indeed 
hath been taken Notice of by fome Writers, and 
among 
