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to drop, there arofe a Smoke which continued amend- 
ing for 20 Minutes (as another Gentleman and I cb- 
ferved by our Watches) ; and at length formed into 
a Cloud, which affumed different Colours. 
XXXIII. A Letter from John Fuller, Efq •, 
jun. F. R. S. to Sir Hans Sloane, Bar*- late 
Prelldent of the Royal Society ^concerning 
the fame Meteor, in Suflex. 
Honoured SIR , 
Efterday in the Afternoon, between Twelve and 
One o’Clock, all this Part of the Country was 
alarmed with a moft terrible Clap of Thunder, as it 
is generally imagined. The Sound came from the 
North, where the Weather appeared very black and 
dark all the Morning. The Sound was double, as if 
Two very large Cannons had been difcharged at the 
Diftance of about a Second from one another : Moft 
People thought, juft at the firft hearing, that it was the 
Difcharge of Cannons, till by the rolling and echoing 
of the Sound afterwards, they were convinced it was 
not. Our Neighbours thought fome Powder-mills 
had been blown up ; and I look upon them to be no 
bad Judges in fuch kind of Blafts, having been more 
than once alarmed with them, by the Powder-mills 
in the Neighbourhood. I have it by Reporr, that a 
Countryman, at Work in the Fields about Seven 
Miles North of us, faw a Flafh of Lightning before 
he heard the Noife, but I cannot anfwcr for the Truth 
of it : It is very eafy to imagine, that Fancy and Fear 
in 
