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Cc inches broad at the head ; nor do they mention 
u any found that was heard after it vanifhed. A 
ct gentleman from Berwick told me, that he had 
‘ c fpoken with a matter of a trading veflel there, who 
£t faw this meteor of November laft, as he was fail- 
tc ing in the Baltick, and in the fame form it ap- 
“ peared in this country j but did not mention its 
cc height, nor direction.” 
XX. Mr. Redpath, fon of Mr. Redpath of An- 
gelraw (a place about four miles north-eatt of Stit— 
chill, in the (hire of Berwick), fays in a letter, dated 
from his father’s houfe, “ That he did not fee the 
“ meteor himfelf, nor had found any intelligent per- 
“ fon who had feen it throughout its whole courfe ; 
“ but that the beft account he could procure was 
“ from one Mr. Mack, a farmer in the neighbour- 
“ hood, tho’ he too had only obferved it a little before 
“ its difappearance. That, from all he could gather, 
<c it was leen on Sunday the 26th of November, 
“ about nine at night ; its direction was from the 
“ fouth-eatt to the north-wett (but nearer the fouth 
“ and north points than the caft and weft), with a 
“ tail of a conliderable length, pointing down- 
<c wards *, inclining to the eaft j that its courfe 
“ feemed to be very quick, and that fparks of fire 
“ fell from it as it moved along ; that the whole was 
“ of a conical figure, and appeared to be about five 
“ inches at its bafis ; that a very ttrong light ifi'ued 
“ from it, which, in thofe houfes where the candles 
* This circumftance of the tail pointing downwards, is con- 
trary to the other obfervations.. and mull have been a deception. 
“ were 
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