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in magnitude, making the air very hot, fhooting from 
the North-ward to the South-weft; fparks of fire 
darting from it, the bignefs of a man’s fift. It came 
very near us before it difappeared, when it feemed 
to us to be of the bignefs of a fhip’s boat, with a 
long tail extending from it, attended with a noife 
like thunder. As it came near the water, the body 
appeared as black as pitch and then vanifhed ; the 
tail remaining fome minutes before it difappeared. 
Signed, 
James Cawley. 
Sworn before Michael Gill, 
the 1.5th of May, 1760. 
The above was likewife attefted upon oath by the 
fubferibers, being failors on board the faid veflel, and 
at that time upon deck. 
[A true Copy.] 
John Sullivan, 
Mark 
Thomas + Frog, 
of 
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