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“ the north, with a hiding noife : that a train oF light, 
“ like a tail, followed it, which being foon collected 
“ into the body, it burft, ana part feemed to fall down 
“ like ftars, and the reft vanifhed. He thought the 
“ whole appearance continued about two minutes.” 
VII. Mr. Lloyd added what follows from the 
Liverpool News-paper, dated i ft of December, 1758. 
<£ On Sunday laft was feen in Weft Derby *, by fe- 
(l veral credible perfons, between 9 and 10 o’clock 
“ at night, a ball of fire, which arofe in the eaft, and 
“ appeared to increafe in fize for fome time, and then 
“ but ft, without noife. Its direction. was- to the 
“ northward.” 
VIII. Cockermouth, in Cumberland, is about 8d 
miles north by weft of Liverpool. Mr. Muncafter, 
of that town, fays, in a letter to a friend in London, 
“ That the meteor paffed over that place *)- about 
“ nine in the evening, on November the adth, with 
“ a very great velocity, towards the north- weft ; that 
“ it gave fo ftrong a light, that the fmalleft thing 
“ might have been feen on the pavement ; and that it 
a difappeared in lefs than a minute : that the globe of 
<c fire appeared as large as the moon when fhe is high, 
<c but much brighter; and had a tail of a conical 
<( form ; but that they did not obferve any fparks or 
* The diftrid fo called of Leverpool. 
t Over that place. This expreflion we are not to underftand 
here in the ftridteft fenfe, more than when ufed by the obferver at 
Carlifle : befides, as the meteor really paffed within a few miles of 
the vertical points of both thofe places, and probably was at that 
time above 60 miles high, it could not appear to decline much from 
the zenith. 
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