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mile below the light-houfe at the entrance of Boffon 
harbour, and heard an uncommon noife, which was 
fomewhat like that of a very hard clap of thunder at a 
great didance, tho’ there was not a cloud to be feen. 
All the company in the boat were fo dartled at it, that 
they left off fifhing to attend to it; and the noife increaf- 
ed to fuch a degree as amazed them all. He fays, 
it feemed like a continued fuccedion of volleys of fmall 
arms. He thinks i: laded about 3 minutes, and gradu- 
ally went off towards the South- Ead. They took it for 
the noife of an earthquake, and expected to find 
every body talking of one, when they got afhore; 
tho’ they could not perceive the lead agitation in their 
boar. 
Had this Meteor happened in the evening, in- 
ffead of the day-time, it would have had many more 
obfervers; and the brightnefs of it would pro- 
bably have been thought as extraordinary as the 
noife. 
On this occadon I take the liberty to give an ac- 
count of two or three other Meteors of this fort, 
feen in North America ; which, if they are per- 
manent revolving bodies, according toyour hint,p. 273. 
may poffibly be of feme fervice hereafter in enumerat- 
ing them. The drd mentioned in the inclofed pa- 
per 1 faw in this town ; the fecond, I received an 
account of in a letter from the Rev. Mr. Clap, Pre- 
fident of Yale College in New-Haven, who heard 
the noife himfelf, though he did not fee the light; 
and the account of the third, here tranferibed in the 
very words of the original, was given me at St. 
John’s, Newfoundland, by Michael Gill Efq; Chief 
Judge in the courts there, when I w r ent thither to 
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