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XIX. Sir Robert Pringle, who was at Stitchill, 
(about io miles N. N. E. of Jedburgh, and about 60 
miles, nearly in the fame direction, fromCarlifle), wrote 
as follows. <c I did not fee the meteor you mention, 
“ nor have I yet met with any body that obferved 
it, further than the great light with which it was 
<c attended, making, every thing to be feen on the 
iS ground as diftindtly as in fun-fhine, and which 
£C continued, as they laid, much longer than a com- 
<c mon Hath of lightning from thunder. At that 
<£ time I happened to be fitting, with fome of my 
tc family, in the parlour, and all of us heard a 
££ noife we could not account for, as founding 
<£ like a gun fired off in the garrets, or a cannon 
£C difcharged about a quarter of a mile from us ; but 
£C the noife continuing like thunder at a diftance, we 
£C concluded it was nothing elfe, till one of the maid- 
£C fervants came in, and told us, fhe had feen a very 
£C furprifing flafh of lightning, both for its clearnefs, 
££ which flie compared to noon -day, and for its con- 
<£ tinuance ; but fhe did not hear the report, which, 
£C I fuppofe, was occafioned by the noife of her own 
££ feet : for all the reft of our fervants, that were fit- 
££ ting, and feveral other perfons in the neighbour- 
££ hood, heard it much as we did. Some of our 
££ Edinburgh news-papers defcribe the body of that 
££ meteor to have been like a large ftar coming from 
£C the fouthward, and ending in the northward, both 
££ points weftward of the obferver, with a train after 
££ it, in form like a cone; and with feveral fparks 
££ falling from it as it went along. Thefe accounts 
££ fay nothing of the length of this luminous appear- 
££ ance; but that it feemed to be about io or i z 
I i 2 ££ inches 
