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a and I conclude from its appearance, that it mull 
£< have begun to burft before I faw it.”,’ 
Dated from Butterby, about' a mile 
fouth of Durham *. 
XII. Mr. Blake, Fellow of the Royal Society, 
fent me the obfervation of the reverend Mr. Wil- 
liam Henderfon, vicar of Felton (a village about 
24 miles N. N. V/. of Newcaftle) j who fays, <c That 
“ the night was dark and calm ; that as he was go- 
fi ing home (a little after nine), about 20 yards wed: 
<c of the bridge, the road was-infiantly fo much en- 
f< lightened, that he might have feen to take up a pin • 
u that the globe, to the eye, was about the fize of a 
<c ball of 6 or 7 pounds Weight that he could not' 
<c guefs at its difiance from the earth, but, during’ 
“ the fiiort time he faw it, he imagined he heard it 
<c whizz over his head •f-'; that it had a tail like that 
u of a comet, almofi a yard in length, perpetually 
<£ emitting fparks of fire ; that the time of obfervation 
u was very fhort, on account of a great hill that rifes 
<c on the fouth fde of the river Coquet, and of a 
<c clump, of trees on the north fide, which obltrudbed 
“ his view ; that its velocity was great, for that it 
£c did not continue in fight above f or 6 feconds ; and 
C{ that its courfe, as near as he could judge, was to 
“ the north- weif.” 
* Durham is about 59 miles from Carlifle eaftward. 
J The obferver probably means a cannon ball of a fix-pounder, 
t This found muft "have been a deception, as fiiall be fhewn 
afterwards. 
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