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He loft fight of it in a cloud, not above 20 degrees 
above the fouthern part of the horizon, into the - 
middle of which it enter’d : but a friend of his, be- 
ing about 4 miles more fouthward, faw it again,, 
after it came out of this cloud, till it enter’d into 
another. 
The excedive hot weather in the preceding part; 
of the month of July, efpecially on Wednefday the 
Uth day thereof, which is fuppofed to have been 
the hotted day we have had for many years in Eng- 
land, may perhaps account, in fome meafure, for 
the generation of this fiery meteor. 
I intirely fubmit to you, whether it deferves to be 
taken notice of by the Royal Society, among the 
extraordinary phenomena of the year 1750 ; and 
am, with the greated. refpecd, 
S I R, 
Your mod obedient humble fervant, 
Catharine-ftreet, Dec. 12. 
I 75°* H. Baker. 
J1I. Thermometrical Tables <m/Obfervations, 
in a Letter to John Pringle M. D. 
p. R. S. by John Stedman M. D . 
S I R, 
Read Jan. 10. IT ACQUAINTED you fome time fince 
175 °’ ^ of having kept a journal of the wea- 
ther in the camp, whild I attended the army in the 
Netherlands; and that, having given particular at- 
tention 
