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tire Dlfilpation of this radiant Canopy ; the others 
dying away and leaving, as it had been a thin 
Smoak. Ihe Vibrations of thefe radiant Columns 
were as fwiit as Flalhes Lightning, and incef- 
fant. 
This furprizing Sight remain’d over us in its full 
Glory 3 or 4 Minutes, during which time the Rays' 
were darted towards the Centre with prodigious fwitc- 
nefs, and did not feem to be fiiot from it. Sometimes 
they undulated like the Vapours arifing from a Lime- 
Kiln, or from the Earth in very hot Weather, and all 
the upper part of the Hemifphere feem’d to be, as it 
were, in a Convulfion. 
In a fliort Time this agreeable Scene vanifhed, and 
was broken into fmall flitting bright Clouds, which 
ftill retain’d an undulating Motion ; and Corufeations 
wou’d every now and then break forth from them. 
At this time alfo I obferv’d feveral Star-like Meteors 
fall, as is frequently obferved in a bright ferene 
Night. 
Tho’ our glorious Cupola difappeared a very few 
Minutes after 8 , yet very vivid Corufeations were 
fliot continually from the N. E. and N. W. Parts of the 
Heaven, which dailiing againfl one another near the 
Zenith, formed by their Collifion momentany Arches 
of a Circle, nearly in the fame Place and of the 
fame Diameter with that above mentioned. None 
now proceeded from the South, and very rarely from 
the true North. The Corufeations were always more 
red and fiery from the Wdftward than from the 
Eift, which were always more bright and lumi- 
nous. 
We were loft in the Contemplation of the beautiful 
Fhanomenon over our Head, and did not obferve the 
Formation of a lucid Arch projected over all 
the Northern Horizon, which Teemed like the Arch 
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