r *8? > 
and from it Rays of very different Magnitudes con- 
tinu d to afcend without any Uniformity as to time 
and place, till 48 or 49 'minutes paft feven, when a 
third Corona, very little, if at all, inferior to the 
preceding ones, either in the Variety of its Co- 
lours or in the quantity of Light it emitted, was 
form d in the Zenith . As the preceding were both 
produc’d by the Northern Stri*, fo this was aug- 
mented by two or three large ones, that arofe due 
^outh, out of the pure Sky, and were, in all proba- 
bility, part of the Vapour, which had been pro- 
jected beyond the Zenith , or which had fubfided from 
the two former : they caus’d the Vapour, of which 
this Image was compos’d, to move with great Vio- 
lence, in different Dire&ions, not unlike Waves of 
Smoke, confin’d in a reverberating Furnace • this 
Motion being abated, the Vapour acquir’d a kind of 
Stagnation, in which State it continu’d but a very 
fliort time, before it projeded feveral lucid Beams -an 
inevitable Fore-runner of its approaching Difloluti- 
on,) between the North and Weft, and foon after 
pardon the levity of the Expreffion, Motti fe immif- 
cuit atr&. J 
About this time, the great Beam, which arofe in 
the N. W. and had prefer v’d its Colours in their 
original Beauty, for more than three quarters of an 
hour, began to fade,and at 7I1. 53 m. was abforb’d in 
a r vaft body of Light, which feem’d fix’d in that part 
of the Horizon * it had mov d in that time 1 5 or 20 
degrees to the Weftward of the Place from when ce 
it arofe* The Impetus of the Vapour being now 
pr£tty much abated, we had nothing extraordinary 
but fucceffive Difcharges of pointed Rays between 
the N. Weft, and E. N. Eaft ; without any Order 
Dd or 
