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XXXII. An Account of the fame Meteor , 
feen at Bath : In a Letter to Tho. Birch, 
D. D. Sec. R. S. from Mr. Jofiah Cole- 
brooke, F. R . S. 
Dear Sir, 
Read Nov. 15, compliance with the prefident’s de- 
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fire, the following is the account of 
the meteor feen at Bath. 
On Saturday the aoth of October, between five 
and fix in the afternoon, as I walked over the north 
parade, 'a ball of fire, of the bignefs of a tennis ball, of 
a very bright colour, with a train of four or five feet 
in length, darted from the north- weft, and, deferr- 
ing the arch of a great circle on my left hand, funk 
behind the hills to the fouth-eaft : juft before it funk, 
feveral large fparks of bright blue fire blued from it ; 
but it did not feem to burft : it was not more than 
two feconds in its paftage, and I could compare it to 
nothing, but the moft glorious fky rocket I had ever 
feen. 
Mr. Peers, a gentleman of London, was at Bath 
at the fame time, and being in a room fronting the 
eaft, that looked over the meadow between Bath and 
Bathwick, he told me, with fome furprize, the next 
day, that he faw the largeft ftar he had ever feen, 
fall into the meadow ; and, what was moft particu- 
lar, that it fell perpendicularly; whereas all he had 
ever feen before /hot obliquely in the fky. 
This muft have been a fpark from this meteor, as 
the time he faw the ftar agreed with the time I faw 
the ball of fire. 
I do 
