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of It was of a pale Brightne fs, like that of burniflied 
or new-wafhed Silver. It darted out of my Sight 
.with a feeming Corufcation, like that of Star-fhoot- 
ing in the Night j but had a Body much larger, and 
a Train much longer, than any thing of that Kind I 
had ever feen before. At my coming home, one 
Brown affured me, he had feen the fame thing, for 
the Continuance of a Minute j and that the Body and 
Train appeared to him to be about twenty Foot long, 
and feemed to him to fall to the Ground fomewhere 
about the Kennel-garden, whither I accompanied 
him in Expectation of finding fome of tiiofe Jellies 
which are fuppofed to owe their Beings to fuch 
Meteors : But we might have fearched long enough, 
as I underftood the next Day, when Mr. Edgeombe 
informed me, that he and another Gentleman had 
feen the fame Appearance at the fame time about 
fifteen Miles from us, fteering the fame Courfe from 
Eaft to the Weft, and vanifhed from them between 
JValkhamptom'Cidi Oakhampton : They gave the fame 
Account of its Figure, Length and Colour. 
XIV. Jn Account oj a Luminous Appearance 
in the feen at London on Thurfday 
March 11.1734-5. hy John Bevis, M. 2 ). 
A S I was obferving Mars near a fmall fixt Star, 
then in the Weft, on the Top of my Houfe 
in Buckingham-fireetj about five Minutes after Eight, 
equal Time 5 happening to turn my Face Southward, 
I was furprifed with an uncommon bright Glade of 
Y y Light. 
