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Thefe figures of the meteor are made much larger 
than they ought to be, in proportion to the other ob- 
jects, in order the better to reprefent its true form. 
After making this furvey, Mr. Pringle got 
the farmer to point to that part of the heavens to 
which he referred the meteor, when oppofite to the 
gabel-end of his houfe ; and the obferver feeming to 
be well allured of the place, Mr. Pringle took the' 
altitude with an inftrument, and found, after three 
trials, the height to be about 5-8°*. He concluded 
with faying, “ That, in anfwer to fome more que- 
cc ries of mine, the farmer had told him, that he had 
“ obferved little riling or falling of the meteor during 
“ its whole courfe; but that its motion, from the 
£c time he firft faw it, to its extinction, feemed to be 
<c nearly in one fixeight line, at an equal height above 
cc the horizon “f*; and that the light was continued 
“ and uniform, without any frelh burftings of flames 
“ from either the head or the tail.” 
XVIII. All the information I received from that 
part of the country, over which the meteor feem- 
ed to break, was from Lord Auchenleck, one of 
the judges in Scotland, whole lands lie in the fhire 
of Air, bordering on the fhire of Lanerk. That 
gentleman was then at Edinburgh j but was fo ob- 
* At this time the meteor muff have been vertical, about two 
or three miles to the fouthward of Lochmabin, a town in the fhire 
of Dumfries diftant from the obferver about 37 miles, and from 
that place where the tail afterwards broke off 31 miles. From the 
altitude given here, I have computed the real height, at this place, 
to have been about 59 miles. 
t This remark muff be corrected by the laft paragraph of the 
laft note of Obf. XVI. 
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