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preferving, as I do not know we have any account 
of fuch another, unlefs what Dr. Halley, in Philo- 
fophical Tranfadtions, N° 278. calls two arches of 
circles touching the halo at top and bottom, can be 
fuppofed to be imperfedt parts of an elliptic halo not 
wholly feen. 
With all due refpedt, I remain. 
S I R, 
Your humble fervant. 
Lyndon, March 3, 1760. 
T. Barker* 
III. An Account of a Meteor feen in New 
England, and of a Whirlwind felt in that 
Country: In a Letter to the Rev . Tho. 
Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal So- 
ciety from Mr, John Winthrop, Profeffor 
of Philofophy at Cambridge in New Eng- 
land. 
Reverend Sir, 
Read Jan. 15, "T Am extremely obliged to the Royal 
1 Society, for their favourable accept- 
ance of my paper on our late great earthquake ; and 
to you, Sir, for the very polite manner, in which you 
were pleafed to inform me thereof. I wifh I were 
able to communicate any thing worthy the attention 
of fo illuftrious a body. But no fuch thing occurs 
at prefent ; unlefs you Ihould be of opinion, that the 
y two 
