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Dr. Pringle thinks it likewife proper to inform the public, that, 
fince his paper was printed, he has received two further accounts of 
the meteor, one from Mr. Pringle, fheriff-depute of the fhire of Rox- 
burgh, the other from Mr. Garret, of Ifland-Bridge, near Dublin. 
Mr. Pringle fays, “ that having, fince his 1 aft letter, drawn a more 
“ accurate meridian, at the farmer’s houfe at Ancram, he now finds, 
“ that the (hepherd’s houfe (mentioned p. 236 ) bears nearly S. E. by 
“ S. from the farmer’s dwelling- houfe ; that the hill with the trees, 
over which the meteor feemed to break (laid down in Fig. IV. as at 
•* 92 0 30' W. of the meridian), really bore W. by N. from the 
“ obferver ; and that the bearing of the luminous body, at the point 
«* of its extinftion, was nearly VV. N. W. and not due N. W. as the 
“ farmer at firft imagined, who, upon this laft furvey, was convinced 
tf of his miftake.” Upon this communication, Dr. Pringle drew, 
on two different maps, a W. N. W. line from Ancram to the path of 
the meteor, and found, that in Elphinfton’s map of Scotland, the 
interfeclion was a few miles to the eaftward of Glafgow, but in 
Kitchin s map a little to the weftward of it. In confequence of thefe 
laft obfervations, the Doctor has fixed the point of extinction to the 
zenith of that city. But as Glafgow lies about 76 miles to the fouth- 
ward of Fort William, over which the meteor, in the preceding paper, 
was fuppofed to difappear, the firft courfe of that body is reduced to 
about 324 miles in thirteen feconds of time, and its velocity therefore 
to about 25 miles in one fecond. Mr. Pringle has likewife acquainted 
the DoCtor, “ that the farmer, on feeing the engraving of the 4th 
4 ‘ figure (of which Mr. Pringle had received a copy), had found fault 
“ with the fize of the head of the meteor, as being too large in pro- 
“ portion to the length of the whole ; fince, to his imagination, the 
“ diameter of the head did not exceed 8 inches, and that the tail feemed 
-«* to be about 3 or 4 yards long.” 
Mr. Garret acquaints Dr. Pringle, “ that, fince his firft letter to the 
DoCtor, Emanuel Miller and he, having communicated their obfer- 
“ vations to Mr. William Gibfon, mathematician, at Dublin, that 
“ gentleman had come to Ifland-Bridge, and having made a furvey 
“ with his initruments, found, that the greateft altitude of the meteor 
“ was no more than 1 2 degrees.” 
Errata. 
P. 240. lin. penult, for P Q_R U, the path of the tail broke off over 
the trees, read Q_R S U the path. E F the tail broke off. 
In the plate, E F the breaking of the tail , fhould not have been 
xeprefented as direCtly over the trees, but a little more to the fouth- 
ward, fo as to bring the ball W (viz. the meteor at its extinction) 
perpendicularly over the faid trees. 
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