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the 27th, 1744; I fhall now inform you of an- 
other, feen by myfelf on Sunday , July the 14th, 
1745. 
As I was coming from my Living, juft before 
I reach’d a Place called Stanlake broad , and a little 
before 8 o’ Clock in the Evening, I was on a fudden 
furprifed to fee a long Stream of Fire, of a Colour 
rcfembling molten Glals, and of a Figure like 
that in the Margin, which (hot down from A 
to B, in Length, I guefs, about twenty De- 
grees, and feemed immediately to run up 
again from B to A 3 where it turned to a fort of 
Smoke, or rather to a fine lambent Flame like 
that of an Aurora borealis ; which conti- 
nued for fome time in a fort of oblong Shape, 
but afterwards by degrees, changed into 
A 
B 
this. 
and at laft into this 
other Form, under which, parallel to the Horizon, it" 
grew fainter and fainter, till it intirely vanifh’d about 
nine o’ Clock. 
There was a fine gentle Breeze all this time ; but 
I could not obferve that it affe&ed the Phenome- 
non fo far as to make it change its Place, which 
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