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been extingulfhed about i° 15' above the horizon, 
then bearing 35-° weffward of the north f. 
III. As for this city, and the parts adjacent, all I 
could learn was likewife from a Magazine ; in which 
it was faid, “ That the meteor was feen by three 
tc gentlemen in Chelfea-fields.” It is probable, that, 
on that evening, the air was foggy hereabouts, or 
that there was no wind to carry off the fmoak ; for 
thefe circumftances will eafily enough account for 
there being no notice at ail taken of that body in Lon- 
don, and that it was fo little heard of in the neigh- 
bourhood.. 
IV. Having heard it was feen at Colcheffer in 
Elfex, I defired the favour of Mr. Windham Bowyer, 
commiffioner of the excife, to employ fome of the 
officers of that diftrifft to procure what intelligence 
they could about its appearance there. Accordingly 
Mr. Wigfon, collector at Colcheffer, informed Mr. 
Bowyer, in anfwer to the queries fent him, tc That 
“ he had found a perfbn who had feen the meteor, 
<c on the 26th of November, about eight in the 
“ evening; and who faid, that its direction, to the 
f This bearing carries the meteor about a point farther to the 
weftward than what is coniiftent with the common maps, and feve.- 
ral of the following obfervations. 
Upon the fuppofition that the obferver was tolerably exaft in 
pointing out the apparent altitude, at which the meteor difappeared, 
and that it was extinguifhed when nearly perpendicular to Fort 
William (in the Highlands of Scotland), as fhall be (hewn after- 
wards, then, allowing 22 miles for the curvature of the earth, and 
a diftance of 420 miles between Silchefter and Fort William, the 
real height of this body, at its difappearance, was about 32 miles. 
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