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II. ExtraEl of a Letter from the tffight Honourable 
the Lord Paifley, K % S. to Mr. George 
Graham, F. L(. S. With fome curious Figures 
of the fame Comet. 
H I S Lordlhip being at Witham in EJfex, where 
he had the Advantage of a very clear Sky, 
firlt difcover’d this Comet on Friday the i ith of Otfob, 
laft about 7 in the Evening } it then appeared not 
much unlike a Star of between the 4th and 5th Mag- 
nitudes, but a Hazinefs round the Head, and fome 
Light ftreaming from it on that Side that was oppo- 
lite to the Sun, induced him immediately to look 
upon it as a fmall Comet \ which his Obfervation 
the next Evening abundantly fatisfy’d him of. His 
Lordlhip was very particular in the Notice he took 
of its Appearance, and was pleafed to communicate 
the three curious annexed Figures [Fig. 1, 2, 3.] of it, 
reprefenting it on three feveral Nights, viz. the nth, 
13th and 15th of the fame Month j fome time after 
which the Tail became fo inconliderable as hardly 
to deferve any farther Defcription } as will be readily 
judged from the Decreafe of it between the nth and 
15th Days of the Month. The Tail was vilible on 
the nth to near a Degrees Difhmce from the Body, 
as his Lordlhip found' by comparing it with fome 
known Dihances in the Heavens j it was of a dusky 
Light not unlike a Cloud growing darker and darker to- 
wards its Extremity, as is exprefs’d in the firffc Figure, 
where, as well as in the two following, the white 
Speck in the Head is intended to exprefs the Bright- 
nefs 
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