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Thefe were all the accounts of the progrefs of tho 
meteor, which I could procure in England : I (hall 
next lay before the Society the obfervations I have 
had from Scotland; and as I have begun, I fhall 
continue to trace the appearance from the fouth north- 
wards. 
XIII. Dr. Gilchrift, phyfician at Dumfries (which 
lies a few miles north of the Solway frith, and about 
50 miles N. W. by W. of Carlifle), acquainted me, 
“ That the belt account he could get of the meteor 
(which he did not fee himfelf), was from a young 
cc man of that place, who, in common affairs, was 
c< fenlible and diftindt. This perfon, on the 26th of 
et November, 1758, in the evening, being in a room on 
“ a firft floor, which had the windows to the north- 
cc eaft, was furprifed by an extraordinary light, and, 
“ running to one of the windows, faw a large fiery 
u body, like red-hot iron. It appeared to him as large, 
<£ and as long, as a middle-flzed man, the fore part 
“ broadeft ; its progrefs was from S. E. toN.W. part 
“ of the tail feparated from the reft, but he ftill 
“ thought it followed the body for a little fpace, and 
“ then it burft like gunpowder, tho’ without noife, and 
<c fell down in fparks of fire, whilft the body kept on 
<c its courfe * ; but which he immediately loft fight 
“ of, by a houfe of two ftories high that intervened.” 
The dodtor faid further, that the fame perfon formed 
his judgment of its height “ from one of the fteeples 
“ of the town, a hundred feet high;” but, as the 
* The eircumftances contained in this paragraph agree perfe&Iy 
with the account of the farmer at Ancram. See Obf. XVI. 
diftance 
