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we fancy we dill fee the figure ef the fun, but of a 
dark colour. Upon going into my houfe, I looked 
at my watch, and found it five minutes after nine. 
The time of the meteor’s appearance, during my 
obfervation, might be near a minute. Aftei I had 
been in the houfe aoout five minutes, I heaid a 
noife, like a dap of thunder, of fome continuance; 
and, upon my daughter’s faying, there is thunder, 
I faid, that could not be ; for that 1 had feen no 
clouds when I was out. Upon this, I went out 
again, and found no clouds, but clear liar-light. 
Several of my neighbours in the village of An- 
cram (which lies about 300 or 400 yards from 
me, a little welferly of the fouth, and over the 
middle of which the meteor palled, according to my 
imagination), iikewile faw the meteor, and heard 
the report. One of them in particular lays, that 
the noife came from the fire as it went along; but 
I cannot be perfuaded of this, for, during the time 
of the light, I did not hear the lead hiding found, 
nor a noife of any kind. Another of my neigh- 
bours in that village, who heard the lcpoit, faid, 
it founded to him like a cralhing noife, and in fuch 
a manner as made him imagine, that the gabcl- 
end of his own and his neighbours houle, which 
were contiguous, had fallen down at a time. I 
have been told, that the continuation of the noife, 
heard by our family, might have been owing to 
the particular lituation of the houle. It llands in 
a hollow, near the brink of the Ale, greatly over- 
topt by very high banks, partly of rock, partly of 
clay, and very deep, which lie along that river 
Upon the top of thefe banks, to the wedward of 
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