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but then came about to the N. W. From that time 
to S h i 5' P. M. it gradually decreafed, and was fuc- 
ceeded by almod a perfect calm, the lead - breath of 
air being then fcarce perceptible. During the conti- 
nuance of the meteor, this calm remained j and after 
the extinction of it, the weather was considerably 
milder than before. The 24th was a warmer day 
than any we had had fince the month commenced,, 
the fun irradiating us from morning ’till evening with 
his Salutary rays. The whole hemifphere and the 
horizon this evening were clear and Serene, the fir-* 
mament being but flightly interfperfed with thin 
whitifh clouds. That part of it near the horizon 
was tinged with a mod beautiful red colour. The 
fun, jud before he emerged out of our hemifphere,. 
perfectly refembled a globe of fire. 
I have not yet been able to meet with an indance 
of a Similar phenomenon in any phyfiological papers, 
published before the year 1750. But accounts of two 
or three meteors Somewhat refembling that above de- 
scribed, in our Philvfophical ‘Tranfaciions *, then oc- 
curred. However, that of the 23d of April, 1764* 
differed from one cf thefe in it’s extent, as well as 
the inconfiderable breadth of the zone forming the 
arch, and the bifteCtion of the hemifphere. From 
the others it was Sufficiently didinguifhed by it’s mod 
vivid refplendent whitenefs, without any diort, white, 
vibrating columns attached to it ; especially, as it 
was neither preceded, attended, nor followed by 
any dreaming luminous rays, or corufcations. I 
cannot help therefore considering this as a lingular 
* Philofaphi. Tmnfaft, Vol. XLVI. p. 345, 346, 347, 648, 
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