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thing etfe in the heavens* It feemed, even between 
the times I obferved it that evening, to have a fen- 
fible motion towards the north- weft (/. e. nearer the 
zenith, and contrary to the order of the figns) : for 
though at fir ft I apprehend its place to be as above,, 
on reviewing it, two or three hours afterwards, it 
was more over the ftar v> and a little to the weft- 
ward of it. 
This phenomenon was feen the night before (viz. 
the 8th, when I was in London}** by two or three 
perfons, who mentioned it to me : but though they 
particularly took notice of it as different from other 
ftars, they were not aftronomers enough to. give any 
exa£t account, either of its place or appearance. 
The evenings following the pth were cloudy, till 
the 13th, which, though far from being very clear,, 
allowed me however, at times, to fee the conftella- 
tion Orion, and weftward of it, as far as Cetus, &c. 
I faw particularly the ftars p and v,. mentioned be- 
fore, and the places above-referred to over them 5, 
but I faw nothing any more of the comet. 
Hampftead, Nicolas Muncklsy.. 
XL HT. Ate 
