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three parts directly over the middle of the town, 
<£ and then afcended through the atmofphere 
Mr. Smeaton, Fellow of the Royal Society, happened 
to be that night at Glafgow ; but did not fee the 
meteor, nor Raid long enough to get any tolerable 
account of it. From the information he had, he 
judged it was not fo vertical as the news- writer of 
that place has reprefented it. 
XXIV. From Dunfermline (a town in the fhire of 
Fife, about 14 miles north-weft of Edinburgh), Dr. 
Stedman acquainted me, <c That he had only found 
<c two perfons who had feen the meteor, a man and 
<£ his wife, from whom he had the following parti- 
culars. That the figure was fuch as was delineated 
<£ in the paper {Fig. f.) which he fent me ; that the 
“ firft view they had of it was in the fouth-fouth- 
c< eaft, as it came from behind a building ; and that 
“ it feemed to them to move weft ward ; that the 
<c hinder part or train emitted large fparks or globules 
<c of flame, fuch as are feen to fall from a fky-rocket, 
“ when it begins to break ; that its altitude was 
<c about 24 0 , which he had taken with an inftru- 
<( ment, upon their firewing him how it feemed to 
u move along the roof of a church, after bringing 
a him to the window where they flood to fee it; 
<f that they loft fight of it before it was extinguished, 
<£ by a fteeple that flood in the way; that its head 
* I defired a gentleman at Glafgow to afk the writer of the 
paper, what he meant by this la(t expreffion ; but he received no 
Satisfactory anfwer, and could furnifh me with no better materials 
from that place. 
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