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a foot diameter, toward the Weft from them, and it 
fell to the ground. — At New-London, in Connecti- 
cut, the ft ream of fire appeared in the North or 
North-weft ; and fome who were off at fea, near 
New-London, took the noile to be from great guns at 
New-London battery. — Mr. Clap obferves, that, 
though the informations he had received differ as to 
particular circumftances, thus much in general feems 
to be certain, that people in moll, if not all the 
towns between Norwalk, near the Weft end of Con- 
necticut, and Braintree near Bofton, which is at leaft 
200 miles, heard an unufual noife in the air, like 
thunder or the difcharge of a cannon ; and fundry 
people, in moft places, about a minute or more be- 
foiethe noile, law a ball or ftream of fire in the air, 
moving in fome form or other. It was cloudy in the* 
morning, but about 1 1 of the clock, when this phe- 
nomenon happened, it was generally clear, and 
but few clouds to be fcen. 
III. A Meteor on the 4th of May 1760, at 
Newfoundland. 7 
I he depofition of James Cawley, mafter of the 
Sloop Content, taken before Michael Gill Elq ; one 
of his Majefty s Jufiices of the peace for the diftridt 
ol St. John s, Newfoundland, layeth, that, coming 
fiom the Banks of Newfoundland for this harbour 
ol St. John’s, being Sunday the fourth inftant, about 
a quarter before twelve o’clock at night, being calm 
and the weather very clear and fair, then, near the 
mouth of this haibour, a fudden light finned, at 
which time we faw a fiery Comet orMeteor in the air, 
at firft appearing in the fhape of a flafk or Florence 
bottle, which as it came nearer to us ftill incrcaled 
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