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“ view of the pictures, and every thing elfe in the 
“ room, than what he could have expected from com- 
“ mon lightning •, that, however, he waited for a 
a clap of thunder, and accordingly, at the end of five 
“ or fix minutes, he heard a very great exploiion, not 
‘ c indeed fo like thunder, as the crafhing noife of the 
“ fall of a houfe j and being perfuaded that this was 
“ really the cafe, and that the gabel-end of his own 
“ houfe, farthelf from the room he fat in, with the 
“ offices, had fallen, he ran out, but found no damage 
“ done, nor faw any clouds, it being clear ftar-light.” 
XV. Having written to Mr. Walter Pringle, Ihe- 
riff-depute of the fliire of Roxburgh, for what infor- 
mation he could give from that part of the country, 
he acquainted me, “That he himfelf had neither feen 
“ the meteor, nor heard the exploiion ; but that a 
“ fervant of the houfe, where he happened to be 
“ that night (about 20 miles S. S. E. of Edinburgh, 
“ and as far N. N. W. of Abbotrule), came in 
“ about nine, and told him there had been fome 
“ thunder and lightning ; which he thought very im- 
“ probable, as he had been out but a few minutes 
“ before, and had not feen a cloud in the Iky’. 
Mr. Pringle added, that the reverend Mr. John 
Smith, of Jedburgh, had written to him as follows : 
“ I am furprifed, that, in all the accounts given of 
“ the meteor, feen on the twenty-lixth ofNovem- 
** her, one remarkable circumlfance is omitted, 
“ namely, the horrid crack, which I heard, being 
“ then on the coniines of Cumberland, near"Stone- 
“ garthfide (about 1 y miles N. by E. of Carlille) : it 
“ was much louder than the report of any heavy 
“ cannon, and continued about 7 or 8 feconds. The 
“ people 
