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Explolion, which feemcd, as above, like a ftormy 
Sea moving from the S.S.E. Note, The Barometer 
was low lor fome Days before and after it. 
IIL An Account of the Aurora Borealis that 
appeared Oft. 8. 1716. In a Letter to the 
TubUPm from the Reverend Dr* Langwith, 
Rellor of Petworth in Siiffex. 
HE Northern Lights have been fo common in 
all Places of late Years, that tho’ I have often 
feen them here, I did not think it worth while to 
write to you about them ; but thofe that appear’d on 
Saturday the 2 th of the laftMonth,were too remarkable 
to be pafs’d over in Silence. They began about Sun-fet ; 
but I heard nothing of them till between 7 and 8. When 
I went out, I obferv’d a Stream of Light almoft due 
Weft, which was about feven or eight Degrees broad, 
and extended it fclf upwards about 3 5 or 40 Degrees. 
I had not a free Profpetft of the Weftern Horizon, 
and fo cannot tell what its Appearance was below. 
It was not perpendicular to the Horizon, but inclined 
a few Degrees towards the South. This Stream was 
of a dusky Red towards the North, but pale on the 
other fide, and feemed to have a faint Mixture of the 
Prifmatick Colours in it. 
I am, &c. 
Arthur Dobbs* 
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