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Light.' It was ftrait, about 2 -f- Degrees broad, and 
no, or 120 Degrees long, ill defined at either End^ 
but pretty well at the Sides, that is, much as the 
common Rainbow, or one of thofc Pyramids which 
are ufed to dart up from the Horizon in an Aurora 
Borealis, which Light it refembled in all refpefls, 
except in its Place and Pofition, and that this was 
fteady, and altogether without that tremulous kind of 
Motion, which ufually accompanies that. Befides 
Saturn, Mars, Venus, and the fixt Stars, there was 
then no other Light in the Sky, nor the leaft Cloud, 
nor any of that horizontal Blacknefs which we fee 
Northward in the Aurora. The Stars were as dif- 
cernible through it, as if nothing had been there. 
A Gentleman who was with me, fanfied it to be 
the Tail of a Comet; but as neither he nor myfelf 
had ever feen one, I gave but little Heed to that 
Conjedture; However, I carefully direded a 17 Foot 
Glafs to all Parts of its weftern Extremity, but could 
difeern nothing like a Nucleus. When I firft faw it, 
it extended itfelf from about the Mid-way between 
Aldebaran, and Ow«’s Left Shoulder, through 
a little under /3, and fo on through Cancer and 
Leo, juft above Cauda Leonis, till it arrived between 
Vindematrix and Coma Berenices, where it ended 
very dilutedly. In about half an Hour it grew dim 
about the Middle, where in a Ihort time it feparated 
in two, or rather became quite dark there; but then 
methought the disjoined Parts were more luminous 
than before ; but they too in a little while after 
grew dimmer, and Ihortened away, on to their 
remote Extremities, which remained vifible the 
iongeft; the Weftern one about Nine o'Clock, the 
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