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any thing new. or agreeable to you, to dc/Tre you to 
cxcufc the great Hurry in which it is wrote, and to 
allure you, that I am very finccrcly, 
\ SIR, 
. 7 'our faithful 
Humble Servant „ 
Petre. 
N. B. Eflfe&s of Lightning, like this, were obferved by Six John 
Clark. See Philofophical Tranjathons ^ N° p. 235. 
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IX. ^ Account oj a Meteor feen at Peckham, 
Dec. 1 1. 1741. by Tho. Milner, l\f. C D . 
Read June 24.. lf\Ecember xi. 1741. at Seven Mi- 
I74 *' nutes part One in the Afternoon by 
the common Clocks, a Globe of Light, fomewhat 
larger than the horizontal Full Moon, and as bright 
as the Moon appears at any time while the Sun is 
above the Horizon,' . inftantaneoufly appeared, in a 
blue clear Sky, about the S.S.E. moving towards 
theEaft with a continual equable Motion, and leaving 
behind it a narrow Streak of Light, whiter than the 
Globe itfelf, throughout its whole Courfe. Towards 
the End it appeared lefs than at the Beginning of its 
Motion 5 and within Three, or at mod Four Seconds, 
it fuddenly vanifhed. Its apparent Velocity was nearly 
equal to half the Velocity of thofe ufual Meteors 
commonly called falling or fhooting Stars : This may 
be thought an indeterminate way of expreiling its 
Velocity, as thofe falling Stars vary in the Swifrnefs 
of their Motions 5 but if fuch be underftood as- have 
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