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XIV. An Account of fever al Meteors, commu- 
nicated in a Letter from Thomas Short, 
M. 2). to the Prefident. 
I F this Account of the following Meteors can either 
be of Ufe or Entertainment to the Members of 
your moft Learned and Auguft: Society, I fliall be 
glad. I am. 
HE Whole of 1737. having been the moft irre- 
gularly conftitute Year of any in my Time; not 
one Month but what had the Weather of all the 
Seafons in it, and that not by gradual Tranfitions, 
but by fudden Jerks ; Summer was dry, Auguft was 
as cold as Winter, September full of great Changes , 
hence that fudden and general Catarrh in CItober ; 
lucceeded in the latter End of the Month, and all 
November , by a fatal 'Diarrhoea among the Poor. 
From November 29. to December 5. was mild and 
warm, cloudy and clear mixt, like Spring Weather; 
the Wind daily veering from South to North- weft, 
and every Night falling back to South-weft or South. 
December 5. at Five o’Clock at Night, the Sky 
Honoured SIR , 
Sheffield, March 
1 8. 1740-1 . 
Honoured SIR, 
Tour mojl obliged, 
obedient humble Servant , 
Thomas Short. 
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