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feveral fparks or letter balls of light. When I firft 
faw it, it was not far from the zenith, from whence 
it moved, not very fvviftly, till at about the height 
of 30° above the horizon it expired. In about 2', it 
was followed by an hollow rumbling noife, pretty 
loud, and fo much like remote thunder, that feveral 
perfons in their houfes, who did not fee the Meteor, 
took it to be thunder ; as others, within doors, who 
faw only the flafh, and not the body of the Meteor, 
thought it lightened. But as there was no thunder 
nor lightening before or after, nor any clouds likely 
to produce them, as I was well attured, being then 
abroad, I queftion not but this report was occafioned 
by the explofion of the Meteor. And this is con- 
firmed by the great extent of this found, which was 
heard in feveral places above 80 miles diftant from 
each other. And from hence, as well as from the 
length of time between the light and the noife, it 
maybe collected that the Meteor mud have been very 
high in the atmofphere. 
II. A Meteor on the 24th of November 1742, 
in the Southern parts of New England. 
In New Haven, in Connecticut, one man faw a 
ball of fire about 4 or 6 inches in diameter, patting 
along from the South-weft to the North-eaft, and a 
ftream of white, bright, and clear fire followed it, 
of near the fame bignefs, and of confiderable length. 
Then the ball broke into fundry fmall pieces, and 
vanifhed with a kind of flafh j and, a full minute 
after, he heard a noife, much like that of rumbling 
thunder, and, he fays, about as long again as a clap of 
thunder ufually is. ■ — Sundry people at Rehoboth, 
in this province [Mattachufetts] faw a ball of about 
4 a foot 
