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:t make it ; only, perhaps, I have added too many 
se fparks, as I doubt there did not fo many iftue from 
cc the tail. The meteor did not difcharge any fparks 
cf nearer the thick end, than are defcribed in the 
ee figure ; but thofe it did emit, darted from it with 
cc an aftoniftiing velocity. In anfwer to what you 
cc require in your laft (viz. whether the path of the 
* t£ meteor was to the eaftward or weft ward of Car- 
<c lifle ?) my fituation, when I faw it, was near the 
tc center of the town ; and the bearing of that part of 
tc the houfe, over which I faw it, was 41 0 from the 
<£ north towards the weft; and as its progrefs ap- 
££ peared on the left fide of me when facing the faid 
te houfe, the path was confequently weft of me, and 
££ of any part of this city 
X. Mr. Jonathan Ormifton, merchant at New- 
caftle, favoured me with all the information he could 
procure in that part of the country. It conlifted of 
an abftradt from the Newcaftle Journal, and the copy 
of a letter from Mr. Martin Doubleday, one of his 
friends near Durham, whom he calls a gentleman of 
fenfe and knowledge. The article from the Journal 
is as follows. <c Newcaftle, 26th of November, 
“ 175-8. This night a furprifing large meteor was 
“ feen here, juft about nine o’clock, which pafted a 
<c little weft ward of the town, diredtly to the north, 
<x and illuminated the atmofphere to that degree for 
i£ near a minute, that, tho’ it was dark before, one 
* From this laft circumftance, compared with obfervations V. 
and XIII. we are enabled to judge nearly of the true path, which 
muft have run from Cambridge acrofs the Solway frith, between 
Carlille and Dumfries, and by Obf. X-VI, on to Fort William. 
<( might 
