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Accounts T have met with, concur in the main with 
his But in the more Southerly Parts of Europe^ I 
rake it to have been fomewhat different. The News- 
Papers tell us from Scafhaufen, that on the of 
“ Oiioher there was a great Alarm in many Parcs of 
“ Switzerland, on account of a great Light feen in 
“ the Air, from 7 o’clock till Midnight j which was 
“ fuppofed to be the Reflecflion of fome great Con- 
“ flagration. At Bern, every body thought there 
“ v;as a Fire in fome part or ocher of the City or 
“ Neighbourhood. At Ueufchatel^ the Alarm-Bells 
“ were rung, and the Governour feveral Hours on 
“ Horfeback, to give Orders, as in Cafes of 
“ Diftrefs. All which they heard afterwards, was 
“ only an AuroraBorealisT And from Florence,my inge- 
nious and curious Friend Sir 7 ho. Dereham fenc me this 
Account, “ As to the Lumen Borsale,'^h\ch. appear’d in 
“ thefe Parts on OE. Sth laft, I faw it my felf in the 
“ following manner : It was one Hour and half aft^ 
Sun-fet, when I was paffing thro’ a Piazza in this 
“ Town, that I difeover’d the Phsenomenon, that 
“ feem’d one Mile long, and three quarters of a Mile 
broad, of an almoft perfedt Oval Figure, hanging 
“ North and North-Eaft to'us ; The Edges of it w ere 
“ of pale light Colour, like the firft Dawn of the 
“ Morning ; and towards the Center, it encreas’d its 
“ fiery Colour ; fo that in fome Places it look’d as the 
“ Fire of a Furnace; but in the very Center, and many 
“ adjacent Parts, it was like a red-hot Iron growing 
“ cold, that feems bloody. For a good w hile I could 
“ perceive no Motion in it ; but after a quarter of an 
“ Hour, I difeover’d a general flow Motion backwards 
“ and forwards, like that one fees of the Circularion 
of the Blood in the Tails of Fillies, by the help of 
‘‘ the Microfeope, but no manner of Darting ; info- 
‘‘ much 
