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f£ a direction at right angles with the ftreet f, having 
“ an altitude, as he conjectured, of about 45* degrees ; 
“ he obferved that the figure was oval, the light great, 
“ and of a blueifh caft ; but he heard no found.” 
XXII. By an article publifhed in the Edinburgh 
news- papers, <c the meteor appeared there of a conic 
<c form, about 5 or 6 inches broad at the bails, and 
“ lafted 5 or 6 feconds ; its light was great, and 
<c fparks flew from it like thofe of a rocket, when its 
£C force is fpent.” I wrote to Dr. Whytt, Fellow of 
the Royal Society, for more particulars from Edin- 
burgh ; but he returned for anfwer, “ That he had 
“ not feen the meteor himfelf, nor any body that 
tc had made proper obfervations upon it; the reft 
“ could only tell they faw a ball of fire, which emit- 
“ ting feveral fparks in its progrefs, moved quickly 
“ along the fouth part of the hemifphere, and then 
<£ difappeared.” He added, “ that, on the night 
<c preceding that on which the meteor was feen, he 
<£ had obferved a very bright aurora borealis .” 
XXIII. One of my friends acquainted me from 
Edinburgh, that the article in the Glafgow paper was 
to this purpofe. cc About nine o’clock laft Sunday 
“ night (viz. on November the 26th), a globe of fire 
<{ came over this city from the fouth ward, in ap- 
ic pearance as large as the full moon. It made the 
“ ftreets as light as at noon-day, lafted about a mi- 
tc nute, and, juft before it vanifhed, it divided into 
j The ftreet, to the beft of my remembrance, lies nearly north- 
north-eaft and iouth-fouth-weft. 
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