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tl month I was at that place. I can pofitively aflure 
ec you no tail was vifible there ; tho’, as I faid before, 
u or at leaf!: meant to fay in my former letter, the 
“ meteor emitted or dropt a great many fparks of va- 
“ rious magnitudes, and mod: beautiful colours, fome 
tc of which feemed to equal the li'ze of half a crown. 
tc My wife and another lady, at fifty miles didance, 
tf almod due ead from Flowerdale, faw many fuch 
tc fparks, but no part of the body of the meteor. The 
<c light, tho’ of the pale moon-colour where I was, 
<£ yet was fo bright, that I could difcover every bufh 
(c and tree, every fcraggy rock on the tops of the 
<c mountains, altho’ the night, both before and after 
( ‘ its difappearance, was extremely dark, and with- 
“ out a dar to be feen. I am not a little furprifed 
tc that, confidering how early in the night the meteor 
<e made its appearance, not one perfon, befides my- 
<c felf, in all this country, as far as I can learn (and 
<c I have taken pains to inquire), happened to fee it; 
tC except you will admit that my wife and her friend 
“ faw fome of its tradt, from the fparks they ob- 
“ ferved. And this circumdance leads me to think; 
<c that it made a very quick turn immediately after 
<c its difappearance from my fight, lofing its fouth- 
t£ ern diredtion, and running due ead : which, in my 
cc opinion, confirms the diip-mader’s report of fee- 
<c ing it in the Baltick.” 
Thus- far Dr. Mackenzie, who, I am perfuaded, 
could not be midaken about the points of the com- 
pafs, in a part of the country he is fo well acquainted 
with, nor would offer any fuch account of a fadt 
he was not well afiured of : fo that, upon the- 
whole, we mud refer this drange -curvature in tine 
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