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“ at fome miles didance, at {upper, in a room with 
“ the windows darkened fo that he neither faw the 
w light, nor heard any found.'’ In a fecond letter, 
he acquainted me, “ That his fon, at my requeft, 
<4 had gone with a friend to the fame window men- 
“ tioned above, and, pointing an inftrument to that 
u part of the heavens he recollected to have feen the 
<c meteor in, they had found the apparent altitude, 
“ during the time Mr. Simfon faw it, to have been 
tc about i y degrees and a half. As for the whole time 
“ of its continuance above the horizon, all the ac- 
<c count he could give was, that the body was not 
<c vifible to him longer than he could have counted 6 
“ or 7 Hrokes of his pulfe ; but believes, if he had 
“ Hood at a higher and an open window, he might 
<c havefeen it much longer.” 
One of my friends did me the favour to write to 
Batnf and Invernefs, in order to learn what had been 
obferved in the more northern parts of Scotland j but 
found the meteor had not been taken notice of at 
either of thole places. 
XXVII. Believing there was a better chance for 
hearing of its courfe more to the weftward, a gentle- 
man here was fo obliging as to procure me the follow- 
ing letter, written by Dr. Alexander Mackenzie, phy- 
fician in the {hire of Rofs, to a friend of his in the 
fame country, on the occafion of this inquiry. <c I am 
t( forry that the information I can give you about the 
“ meteor, of the 26th of November laft, will be fo 
“ little fatisfaClory : however, I fhall tell you what I 
“ faw. I muft firft obferve, that where I then was, 
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