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as afterwards, thofe Stars, that remained between the 
Cones, fuddenly appeared very bright, whilft thofe, 
that were covered by them, could hardly be perceived: 
and indeed all the dreaming Lights this Evening 
feem’d to flow from this Crepufculwn downwards, as 
from a Fountain or Store, and not to arife from the 
Horizon, few approaching it nearer than io Degrees, 
and many not within 20 or 30 deg. 
After this fine Appearance had continued about 2 
Minutes, the Matter feemed to be exhaufted, and 
the Scene almofl: at an end, the dreaming fliining 
Lights being moflly extinguifhed, and the remaining 
Parts of Vapour left, like broken Clouds *, when the 
flafhing Lights began to appear of a mod prodigi- 
ous Swiftnefs, both from N. E. and N. W. pointing 
to the Zenith, or a little more to the South. ’Twas 
obfervable, that over the Trads, where thefe flafhing 
Lights palled, the remaining parts of Vapour (which 
now lay fcattered every where, like white broken 
Clouds) pointed, or leemed to have a Tendency, con- 
formable to the fame Motion r whereas, towards the 
due North, where no Flalhes appeared, thefe whi- 
tifh Clouds Jay confufed and irregular as before. 
This continued about so or 25 Minutes, when the 
Wind began to arife a little at N. E. and the Scene 
was quite at an end, dark Clouds fucceeding all over, 
the North, and by nine a. Clock we had a fevere. 
Storm of Snow. 
N. B . That all the time of thefe Appearances* 
many broken parts of the extinguilhed Vapours, like 
white Clouds, were carried beyond the Zenith, fome 
50 or 60 deg. and others, even to the Horizon it felf, 
at S. $• W. 
During 
