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and return’d feveral times fo quick, that we cou’d not 
fteadily fix our Eyes upon it. Thus the Order of the 
Colours was 
I. Red, Orange Colour, Yellow, Green, Light Blue, 
Deep Blue, Purple, , 
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II. Light Green, Dark Green, Purple,- 
III. Green, Purple, - 
IV. Green, faint vanilhing Purple, ^ 
You fee we had here four Orders of Colours, and 
perhaps the beginning of a fifth, for I make no quefHon 
but that what I call the Purple, is a Mixture of the 
Purple of each of the upper Series with the Red of the 
next below it, and the Green a Mixture of the inter- 
mediate Colours. I fend you not this Account barely 
upon the Credit of my own Eyes ^ for there was a 
Clergyman and four other Gentlemen in Company, 
whom I defir’d to view the Colours attentively, who 
all agreed, that they appear’d in the manner that I have 
now defcrib’d. 
There are two things, which well defer ve to be ta- 
ken notice of, as they may perhaps dired us in fome 
meafure to the Solution of this curious Phsenomenon. 
The ift is. 
That the Breadth of the firfl Series fo far exceeded 
that of any of the' reft, that as near as I could judge, it 
was equal to them all taken together. 
The 2d is. 
That I have never obferv’d thefe inner Orders of Co- 
lours in the lower Parts of the Rainbow, tho’they 
have often been incomparably more vivid than the 
upper 
