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c * Garret, a good fenfible man, with fome mathema- 
<c tical learning, whofe account he had therefore fent 
“ me, in an extract from a regider of the weather 
Ct kept by that perfon 5 and to which was fubjoined 
tc an anfwer to fome queries, that had been put to 
u him, concerning that body.” Here follows the 
paper. 
Extradl from a regifter of the weather, by Tho- 
mas Garret, inn-keeper at Idand-bridge, near 
Dublin. 
cc November the 26th, 1758, hard blowing wea- 
<c ther ; wind at fouth-eafi. Fifteen minutes pad 
<c eight in the evening*, a globe of fire about feven- 
<c teen degrees above the horizon -f-, due ead, moved 
<c from fouth to north, as large in appearance as the 
moon, but more of a golden colour ; it broke and 
“ difperfed, like a darry rocket, in fmall, bright 
<c fparkles, nearly before the wind, or as if they 
C£ pafied away with the wind. 
* By the difference of longitude, this time anfwers to about 
forty-one minutes paft eight at Cambridge, about half an hour 
after eight at Carlifle, about 32 minutes after eight at Ancram, 
about 26 minutes after eight at Edinburgh, and about 20 paft eight 
at Elowerdale in Rofsfhire. 
f By Moll’s map, Dublin is diftant from Cambridge about 240 
miles (at 60 to a degree) ; and a line drawn due eaft from Dublin, 
cuts the tra£f of the meteor near the north-eaft corner of Derby- 
fhire, diftant by the fame map about 185 miles from Dublin. 
From thefe meafures, and the apparent height, the real altitude of 
the meteor at Cambridge muft have been about 95 ftatute miles, 
and over the corner of Derbyfhire about 72 ftatute miles, allow- 
ance being made for the curvature of the earth. This obfervation, 
compared with Obf. II. and XXIV. with the notes, makes the 
obliquity of the courfe very manifeft. 
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