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IU. A Vefcription of the great Meteor which was on 
the 6th of March, \ 71 [. Jent in a Letter from 
the late tftyverend Mr. Roger Cotes, Tlumian 
Profejfor at Cambridge, to Robert Danny e, 
D. D. (Reffor of Spofferth in Yorkfhire. 
r T 1 H E appearance of the Meteor was very 
JL nearly the fame with us here at Camb- 
ridge as wi r h you, excepting that the triangular 
Streams of Light were not 7 o permanent as you 
feem to defcnbe them, and the Point to which they 
all converg’d was diftant from the Zenith about 20 
Degrees, its Azimuth lying between the South and 
the Eall at about 10 Degrees from the South, to* 
wards which Point of the Compafs the Wind tended. 
The pofttion of this point of Convergence may be 
more accurately determin’d, if there be occafion : For 
at a quarter after Seven, when the appearance to us 
was in its greaceft: perfedion.it lay nearly in the mid- 
dle between the two bright Stars, in the heads of 
Caflor and PolL*x. I am told that fome Streams were 
feen to {hoot forth immediately after Sun fet, and that 
they did not perfectly ceale till about 3 or 4 in the 
morning. 
It was after Seven before I had notice of this un- 
common fight. At firft 1 faw only two or three of the 
triangular 
