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phorata; ut fanguinis confiftentia integra fervetur in pro- 
cellu, mali, quod fit acidis & terreis adftringentibus, ut 
Venenum ad peripheriam alliciatur, &c. 
Ann0171 * Fmanuel Timonius, 
Conjianthiopolitanus. 
iV. An Account of a Luminous Appearance in the 
Air at Dublin, on January the nth , 17^. 
Philip Percival, Efq- Brother to the 
Honourable the Lord Percival, and communicated 
by his Lordfhip to the ^oyal Society . 
T Here fend you a Sketch of an odd appearance in the 
A Sky; it began about 10 a Clock on Tuefday laft, but 
nothing very remarkable till about half an Hour after 
Eleven, when I was call’d out to fee it, by the Servants, 
who had been looking at it about half a quarter of an 
Hour, and told me it looked juft like Fire. But it ap- 
peared firft to me in long ftreams of light, of a round 
Body, as at A, and very bright, tho’ fome were colou- 
red, as at A a. They came before the Wind, which was 
then Weft, as near as I could guels, there not being a 
Cloud in the Skv, and the brighteft Moon I have known. 
V\ e had Rain about Five, but at 6 a Clock the Night 
was clear. The Streams of Light A A, moved very 
flow, ( there being but little Wind) but as they moved 
they joined, and, twelling out in the middle, formed 
themfelves into the figure b b B, continuing to advance 
flowly in that lhape for about a Minute, when the two 
Ends b b, approaching near each other, as delcribed by the 
D prick’d 
