C 585 3 
Stylo novo. 
Temp. 
vero 
vefperi. 
Longitudo 
Martis. 
Latitudo 
Martis. 
D. 9 Nov. 
9 - 34 - 
Obfervatio 
Manfredii. 
Ghiflerii. 
Defplaces. 
„ / n 
T 13. 22. 20. 
13. 22. — 
13. 11. — 
13. 25. — 
0 / // 
1. 1. 30. M. 
1. 0. 30. 
1. 3. 30. 
1. 2. 30. 
VII. A Collection of the Obfervations of the 
Remarkable Red Lights feen in the Air on 
Dec. 5. 1737. fent from different ‘Places to 
the Royal Society. 
1. An Account of the Red Lights, on Dec. -fe. 1737. 
as obferved (at Naples) by the Trince of Cafiano, 
F. R. S. and by him fent in a Letter to the Pre- 
lident : Tranfated from the Italian by T. S.. M. D. 
F. R. S. 
A cphtenomenon of a fiery Meteor is my Motive 
for troubling you, Sir, with this other fhort 
Narrative * being perfuaded that it will be as agree- 
able to you to pcrufe, as it was to me to draw it up 
with all the Circumftances of Truth, to which I was 
an Eye-witnefs. 
Dec. 16. 1737. ( 2 \T. *£) in the Evening, the Sun 
being about 25 Degrees below the Horizon, a Light 
was obferved in the North, as if the Air was on Fire, 
and flafhingj the Intenfenefs of which gradually in- 
creafing, at the Third Hour of the Night it fpread 
Weflward in fuch a Manner, that if a Perpendicular 
was let fall from the Polar Star, and afterwards a 
Pa- 
