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<c people thought it a peal of thunder ; but this, 1 
<c imagined, could not be the cafe, as the iky was not 
£c clouded. I did not fee the meteor myfelf, being 
cc then within doors.” 
XVI. In another letter, Mr. Pringle informed 
me, cc That he had converfed with one James Turn- 
cc bull, a farmer at Ancram, a village about three 
<c miles north-weft of Jedburgh, who had feen the 
<c meteor, and heard the explolion, and who being a 
“ very fenfible man, he thought he could not give me 
<c greater fatisfadion, in anfwer to my queries, than 
“ by defiring him to write me a full account of what 
cc he had feen and heard.” Accordingly I received 
the following letter from that perfon. 
<c At Mr. Pringle’s delire, I fend you an account 
“ of the meteor, as it appeared to me on Sunday the 
u 26th of November, 1758. My dwelling-houfe, 
tc at the mill of Ancram, fronts fouth-eaftj and the 
“ mill-houfe, which is diredly before it, has the fame 
“ expofition, at the diftance of about twelve yards. 
<c About nine at night I happened to be out, and 
tc upon returning to my houfe, and juft entering the 
“ threfhold, the whole fide of the houfe became 
“ fuddenly enlightened, and with a brightnefs as 
ct of fun-ftiine. My back being towards the place 
tc from whence the light came, I quickly turned 
“ about to fee what might be the caufe of it, and 
“ then beheld a globe of fire about the bignefs of the 
<c crown of the cap I commonly wear, 6 or 7, or at 
“ moft 8 inches in diameter *, direding its courfe 
PI h 2 “ from 
* After receiving this letter, I wrote to Mr. Smith, to defire him 
to afik Mr. Turnbull, how many inches in diameter the full moon 
appeared 
