( lU) 
or Uniformity as to time or place fetting afide thefe, 
there was very little difference in the general face of 
afFairs for 20 minutes j neither had we much reafon to 
hope for any, becaule the feverity of the Cold was 
fuch, that it oblig’d us to remove to a better Climate, 
and by that means we unfortunately loft theenfuing; 
Fbafes of our dying Meteor* ~ 
Dublin , June I am, SCc. 
28th* 1721* J. W. 
VI. 4 Defcription of an Aurora Borealis, Jeen 
on the fame Day at Cruwys-Morehard, m 
Devonshire. !By Samuel Cruwys, Effc F.R.S* 
M Onday the 6th of Teh. 1720-21, a little before y 
in the Evening, there arofe out of the North, 
or a little towards the Eaft, a bright Crepufculum, 
which foon fpread it felf a great way through the 
Northern part of the Hemifphere. About 7 (when 
I firft faw it) it began to leave behind it, at due 
North, or a few Degrees to the Eaft, part of a very 
clear Sky (which look’d like a black Cloud, but the 
Stars fhone in it clearly J being a Segment of a Cir- 
cle, into which Figure, the Crepufcidnm (or expanded 
Body of lucid Vapour ) had now formed its upper 
Limb alfo, making a kind of broad Iris, terminated: 
at each end by the Horizon* 
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