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<c from a fhepherd’s houfe (which fcood at above a 
<c mile’s diftance) towards me, as I thought, and right 
“ over the middle of the mill-houfe. I fcarce had time 
<c to think, when it paffed by me to the north-weft 
“ with a very great fwiftnefs, find very high in 
<c the air. When it came oppofite to the gabel- 
<c end of the dwelling-houfe, I then difcovered its 
“ true figure : it was perfe&ly round at the great 
“ end, which went foremoft, and tapered three or 
“ four yards, to my imagination, in length •f\ Being 
“ refolved to fee it as long as I could, and fearing 
“ the wall and roof of my houfe might intercept the 
“ view (for I was then ftanding in the threfhold), I 
“ moved fix or feven yards farther off the houfe, 
tc keeping my eye fixed upon the meteor, and ob- 
“ ferved, that it had not gone above a quarter of a 
“ mile, when one-third towards the fmall end broke 
“ off ; which third leparated into fparks of fire, refem- 
appeared to him when at the higheft above the horizon ; his 
anfwer- was, about 12 : hence the apparent diameter of the meteor, 
to this obferver, was not above one half, or at moft two- thirds, of 
the apparent diameter of the full moon at its greateft height. But 
whereas this perfon faw the meteor firft, when it could not be 
much farther advanced to the northward than Cambridge, the ap- 
parent magnitude muft have been confiaerably increafed by the 
time it came oppofite to the gabel-end of his houfe, where it was not 
at above the third part of the firft diftance. If therefore we allow, 
that when fee n at the largeft at this ftation, the diameter of the head 
was only equal to the apparent diameter of the moon at the fame 
height, we (hall find the real diameter of the meteor to have been 
about half a mile, upon computing its diftance from the village of 
Ancram. 
f Having afterwards inquired, whether the head was of a glo- 
bular form, diftinct from the tail, he anfwered, “ that he could be 
« allured, that the appearance was as in the figure j and that the 
* f head and tail formed one tapering ftream of light.” 
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