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<c . might have taken up a pin in the ftreet. Its velo* 
“ city was almoft inconceivably great ; anditfeemed 
“ near the fize of a man’s head. It had a tail about 
“ two or three yards long ; and, as it patted, fome 
fay they faw fparks of fire fall from it. It appeared 
<c low in the atmofphere ; and we are advifed from 
cc Edinburgh, that it patted over that city * juft about 
<c the fame time, had the fame appearance, and 
“ moved in the like direction.” 
Mr. Doubleday’s letter. 
XI. “ On the ^6th of November laft, about a 
<c quarter before nine, as I was fitting writing by 
“ candle-light, with my face towards a window 
cc fronting the north-weft, I was furprifed by a fud- 
cc den and extraordinary light, and ftepping haftily 
<c to the window, faw the refemblance of a large 
<c fky-rocket, falling and burfting into fparks of fire, 
<c which became more fcattered in its defcent, and 
<c feemed to be quite fpent by that time it reached 
tc the horizon (which it did, as near as I could guefs, 
tc due north J), its path appearing luminous to a 
“ confiderable diftance from the fcattered parts, 
<c which with it were not difperfed, but as if con- 
<c fined between two parallel ftreight lines. The 
<c greateft height of its luminous path, when I firft 
faw it, was 2 f degrees above the horizon, N. W. 
tc by N. I heard no noife at the time, nor after j 
* By the accounts I had from Edinburgh, it was not nearly ver- 
tical there. 
X The head of the meteor; feen from this gentleman’s houfe, could 
not reach an unobftru&ed horizon, nor be feen due north by 3 or 
4 points, coufiftently with moft of the other obfervations. 
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