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While we flood amaz’d at this Surprizing Sight, the 
J.xis of the colour’d Byramid \ which arofe in the 
N. Weft, had mov’d considerably toward : the Weft, 
and at 711.25m, was about 23 or 25 Degrees to'the 
North of Venus . The dark Bafts of this Meteor had 
now extended almoft to the Eaft Point of the Hori- 
%on, and at half an Hour paft feven, between E. N. 
E. and E. by N. Several large Columns afcended in 
an inftant to the Zenith } the moft Eaftward whereof 
was remarkably convex toward the South, and ting’d 
with a pale Red, as were moft of thofe which afcen- 
ded with it. They were met by others, that arofe at 
the fame time beetween the North and Weft, and in 
the Zenith form’d a vaft Colledion of Vapour, that 
pretty much refembl’d Smoke inlightned by the’sun’s 
Beams - its Waves refleded a brisk, lively red Co- 
lour, and in fome places a pale Yellow • they roll’d 
indifferently any way • and in little more than a 
Minute, when thefirft Efforts of their Congrefs were 
fpent, and all feem d fix d and ferene, the Covona pro- 
jected Several Small Rays, which with a how uniform 
Velocity defcertded between W.by N. and N. W. 
foon after which it died away. 
We had not much time to lament the Abfence of 
our SpeBrum , for at 7 h. 40 m. Several other StrU 
were discharged from behind the dark Bafts, which 
interfering with others, that at the fame time arofe 
about the Eaft and Weft Points, form’d in the Zenith . 
or rather 6 or 8 Degrees to the South thereof, a Se- 
cond much more elegant and Surprizing than the for- 
mer, and indeed than any thing that had yet appear- 
ed: it was not only ting’d with different Orders of 
red and yellow, but alfo with blue and violet, the 
laft of which, by a Mixture with the white Light, 
appear’d 
