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ira6t recommended by Dr. Stork in his ingenious 
treatife hath not, upon trial in England, been at- 
tended with the fame fuccefs it had at Vienna, 
I Should prefer the herb itfelf to any preparation 
of it. 
XL IX. An Account of a remarkable Mete- 
or : In a Letter to the Reverend Tho- 
mas Birch, D. D. Secret . of R. S. from 
Mr . Samuel Dunn. 
» 
Reverend Sir, Chelfea, Dec. 9th, 1763. 
Read Dec. 15, T" N the Months of September and 
17 3 ’ x October laft, on many different days, 
but always in the afternoon, when the Sun was 
nearly of the fame height above the horizon, I 
was amufed with the appearance of a kind of me- 
teor, which I do not know that it hath been before 
taken notice of by others. As it appeared under 
nearly ‘the fame circumftances at other times* and 
therefore may contribute towards the better un- 
derftanding the theory of a parhelion, I fhall give 
the defcription of this meteor, as it appeared the 
6th of October laft, at five o’clock afternoon. A 
kind of mock Sun appeared of equal altitude with 
the real Sun about 22 ~ foutherly therefrom. A 
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