( 30S ) 
but died before they got any confiderable diftance. In 
the 1 faw two fmall long Clouds, which interpofed 
betwixt me and the light Streams,* which I faw a- 
bove the Clouds, and betwixt them, which convinc’d 
me that this Light f whatever it be) is far above them. 
I have drawn a Scheme of the whole Horizon, as it 
* appear’d to me. (See the Figure.) That bright Star is 
Jupiter, whofe Place then was 17® in Aries, and was 
about South-Weft, I guefs about 10® high. Some 
of the brighteft Stars in Taurus, Orion, and Aries ap- 
pear’d South and South Eaft ; but I have not placed 
thofe but by guefs. In this ftate I left it : But was 
told by one that faw it after Ten o’ Clock, that the 
whirling Light in the Zenith appeared ot feveral Co- 
lours, as, blue, green, yellow, and reddilh. But that 
I did not fee. 
/ awy &c. 
V. A Letter from the Reverend Mr. Edmund 
Barrel, Rector of Sutton near Dartford in 
Kent, to Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet^ concern- 
ing a Shock of an Earthquake felt in that 
Neighbourhood^ &c. 
S I R, Sutton, Aug* nth, lyzyi 
J had an Information brought to me Yefterday, on 
purpofe to be communicated to your Society 
’twas, that the Earthquake was felt very fenfibly at a 
Farm on a Hill called Skeat-Hill, which is at the Weft 
End of Lullingfione~\f 2 ^xky belonging to Percival Hart, 
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