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ing to the account I received) one might fee to 
“ pick lip a pin, and fome noife was heard; but of 
this latter, at lead:, I a little doubted, imagination 
££ being able to help out a good deal in fuch cafes. 
££ The appearance was about half an hour after eight 
“ in the evening, on a Sunday ; but the day of the 
££ month, or the month itfelf, the man does not 
“ certainly remember. This is all the account I have 
<£ been able to procure. The heights, &c. I could at 
u firfl: only get in, as long as from here to that hedge ; 
tc as broad as a hat crown ; as thick as my wrijl ; and 
££ about as long as a broom-faff : but, as I thought thefe 
t£ would give you no more ideas than they gave me, I 
t£ defired my man to point out in the heavens, as near 
<£ as he could guefs, clouds, &c. of the fame lize, 
C£ and then I meafured them with a quadrant, and 
a the refult of thefe meafures is what I have fent 
<£ you.” 
VI. Purfuing the progrefs of the meteor north- 
wards, my next information was from Manchefter. 
Mr. Lloyd, of that place, Fellow of the Royal So- 
ciety, wrote, that tho’ it had been feen there by fe- 
veral, the only tolerable account he could fend me 
from that country, was from Lord Derby’s head gar- 
diner ; who faid, ££ As he was returning from Liver- 
<c pool to Know (ley (a place at 7 or 8 miles diftance), 
£< about eight in the evening, he was furprifed by a 
£c fudden glare of light ; and that hefoon faw a ball 
c£ of fire appearing, of half the breadth of the moon, 
ec moving horizontally eaftward *, a little inclined to 
* This perfon, like the traveller between Thorp and Colchefter, 
has probably been deceived in the direction by the windings of the 
road. 
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