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IIL An Account of the Lumen Boreale, as feen at 
feveral Times, By the Rev, Dr, Langwith, 
Rector of Petworth in SulTex, Communicated 
in a Letter to the Same. 
SIR, 
J AM very glad to find that the Accounts of the laft“ 
Meteor are of fo near an Agreement; for 1 perceive 
there is little difference but what may be owing to the 
time and place of Obfervation. We have had the fame 
fort of Lights here feveral times fince my laft; parti- 
cularly, 
4. A Luminous Arch which extended it felf 
from N. E. to Weft. The Streams all mov'd 
Weftward. Wind N. W. Merc, 29 7, 
Jan, 5. We had fomething of the fame Nature, 
but hardly enough for Obfervation ; and yet, this 
very Night the Appearances were more remarkable 
in fome parts of the Kingdom than thofe of OBoher 
the eighth. This I was inform’d of by a Perlon of 
Quality in Lanca(hire, who was pleas'd alfo to fend me 
the enclos’d Defeription and Draught, communica- 
ted to him by a curious Obferver at Liverpool, 
March rd. Between 7 and 8, there was an Arch 
upon a black Bafis as before, extending it felf from 
N. E. to W. It’s height variable. Pyramidal Streams 
of Greenifti Light moving Weftward. About a quar- 
ter paft 8, there Ihot up from the Weft a Stream of 
pale Flame-colour about 6 or 7 Degrees broad : It 
pafs’d over the Pleiades, and crolling the Meridian a- 
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