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Received 0 £Vober 5, lydp* 
LETTER IL 
Good Sir, 
Read Dec. 7, KING in my parlour, with the 
IJ lafhes down, on Saturday, Septem- 
ber 9, 1769, at 20' P. M. I obferved, with no 
fmall degree of afloniOiment, through the glafs, 
fuch a rednefs in the fky as proceeds from the re- 
flection of a great fire. This I was at firfi: inclined 
to confider- as a fort of deception, occafioned by the 
glafs through which fo uncommon an objeCl feemed 
to prefent itfelf to my view j but flepping out imme- 
diately into the yard, I found it to be a real ap- 
pearance, refembling a flame, in the atmofphcre, 
and confequently a very unufual fight. The meteor 
was, however, of no very confiderable extent j being 
almoft intirely confined to that fmall trad of the 
heavens occupied by Urfa Major, part of Urfa Mi-> 
nor, and the intermediate fpace, containing the tail 
of JDraco, between thofe two conlfellations. It re- 
mained about 20', after I firfi: difeovered it, without 
any material change, or variation 5 and at 8^ 40^^ 
P. M. as I found by confulting my watch, almofi: 
inftantly difappeared. 
The wind on the 9th was, for the mofi: part, W. 
and S. W. and the weather fiiowery. The rain, 
VoL. LIX» Ebb ' however;,^ 
