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the furprize occafioned by them, at a late hour, among 
people unaccuflomed to think on thefe fubjedts, will 
fufficiently account, not only for the variety, but the 
contradictions, in the feveral obfcrvations. 
I come next to the refult of all the relations, with 
regard to the true path, the velocity, figure, magni- 
tude, and other circumflances relating to this body ; 
which having deduced in the belt manner I could 
from the preceding materials, I fhall now fubmit to 
the judgment of the Society. But as my laid paper on 
this fubjedt was of fo great a length, I fhall not far- 
ther infill on it now, than barely to mention the con- 
clufions I have made, without lofing time in recapi- 
tulating the feveral fleps that led me to them 
Firfl then, as to the path. This meteor feems to 
have been vertical at Cambridge, or nearly fo, and 
to have taken fire about the zenith of that place ; 
or at leafl to have appeared firfl there in a flate of ig- 
nition. From thence it proceeded diredtly, almofl 
N. W. byN. over feveral counties in England, over 
the Solway frith (which it crofied between Carlifle 
and the town of Dumfries) ; and in Scotland over the 
fhires of Dumfries and Lanerk : but foon after its be- 
coming vertical to the lafl, viz. a few miles to the 
fouthward of Douglas (or perhaps nearer to the bor- 
ders of Lanerk and the fhire of Air, about io or 12 
miles to the eaftward of Auchenleck), part of the tail 
feemed to break off, and to difperfe in bright fparks 
of fire ; whilfl the head, into which the remainder of 
the tail was inflantly colledted, moved on in the fame 
* Some of the moft material are fubjoined in notes to the former 
paper, fince it was firft prefented to the Society. 
direction, 
