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among thefe, one which arofe about N. Weft, and 
in three or four fecond Minutes pafs’d over 50 or 
60 degrees of a great Circle, was above all others that 
had preceded, the mod fplendid: Its fides were 
inchn d to each other with an Angle of about 8 or 
10 Degrees and were ting'd with a brisk lively Red 
which by degrees, as it approach’d the Axis, became 
more inrenfe and dirty : On the other hand re- 
ceding from the Axis, its Colour was a pale ’ Yel- 
low, that foon loft it felf in a faint Whitenefs. 
. r0 ® t * me 00 Moment pafs’d without fuch Va- 
riety of different Fhafes, that it was impoffible for the 
ye o any Angle Perfon to purfue it thro’ the fud- 
dennefs of its Alteration. While fome of the lucid 
Beams feem’d to ftand fix’d, as it were, among the S 
others mov d flowly from Eaft to Weft, by which they 
feem d to meet each other, fometimes to recede from 
each other, and fometimes by a find of appofition great 
ones were produc’d from others of an inf m “” ffi 
^^ e ha^!no^^ni^it^fe^ r into*^p er, ^ 7 / , Jr^ e 
whofe upper and lower Edges were “fees’ 
diftant from each other, and nearly parallel tnthl 
Horizon : In this; as if behind a Cwtafn vaft Waves 
of Light, whofe Extremities did not reach the Perl 
eacl7olr t feem ’ d t0 meet and p rvade 
eacli other; at other times, while fome nf W, , -Sf 
If Vd °‘ i ‘r- 1 
if behind them, would fly towards the Weft ’w 
which variety of different 4 tions,as ofmnasanVl/ 
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