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<< ing, I guefs, 10 or 15 Degrees above the Horizon. 
Out ot this Cloud proceeded feveral Streams or Rays 
of Light, like the Tails offome Comets, broad be- 
low, and ending in Points above. Some of them ex- 
tended almoft to the d ail of ‘Urja Mi/ior, and all were 
« nearly perpendicular to the Horizon, and it was ss 
« bright as if tnc Full Moon had beeicrifing in the 
Cloud. But wiiat 1 wondered atmolf, was the Mo- 
non of the dark and lighter Parts running Ifranpely 
through one another in a Moment; fomecimes to the 
Faff, and fometimes to the Weft. It continued, after 
I firlf faw it, about a Quarter of an Hour, ’often 
‘‘ changing its Face and Appearance, as to Form and 
Light; fometimes broken, fometimes entire and long 
Rays of Light in the clear Sky, quite feparate from, 
and above the Cloud, and none below in the Cloud. 
‘ To prevent Miifakes, I think it necelTary to obferve. 
that this Light which Mr. faw, is very different 
from that like the Tail of a Comet, which hath been 
feen in the Conflellation of Taurus^ or near it ; which 
I happened to fee in 1706, the Figure whereof is pub- 
Jifhed in the Tranjaef. N, ^05, and which fome are plea- 
fed to call theyf//r(?r^« Borealis', wdiich Name, in my Qt 
pinion, would better befit this Lumerf Boreale, wllich i^ 
feldom, if ever feen out of the North: ‘ 
