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XXVI. Several Accounts of the fery Meteor , 
which appeared on Sunday the 26 th of 
November, 1758, between Eight and 
Nine at Night ; colle&ed by John Pringle, 
M. D. F. R . X. 
Read Feb. INCE the paper concerning the me- 
teor, of November 1758, was read at 
the Society, I have been favoured with feveral more 
obfervations relating to the fame appearance, which I 
have connected with the former in fuch a manner, 
as that we may now trace the courfe of that body, 
from the fouth northwards, over a confiderable part 
of this ifland ; and at the fame time form a better 
judgment of its figure, height, magnitude, and velo- 
city, than what could be drawn from the firft ac- 
counts only. At prefent, I fhall lay before the So- 
ciety all the inquiries I have made on this fubjedl, and, 
in another paper, I fhall offer a few remarks, con- 
taining the refult of thefe obfervations. 
I. I faid at firff, that I had not heard, that this 
body was obferved any- where fouth of London, ex- 
cept at Silchefter ; but having fince read in one of the 
Magazines, that it was feen at Plymouth, I wrote to 
Mr. Mudge, Surgeon in that place, to be informed 
about the truth of that article; who anfwcred, Cc That 
“ he had made every inquiry in his power with re- 
“ gard to the meteor, and could find but two per— 
“ fons who pretended to have feen it, and thofe to- 
“ tally difqualihed from giving him any fatisfadwy 
“ account 
