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however, notwithftanding the favourable fituation of 
the wind, was lomewhat cold, and the whole day 
had a lowering winterly afpedt. A fmall fliower 
fell, juft before I difcovered the phaenomenon here 
defcribed. The light caft by it was nearly equal to 
that of the full moon, on a cloudy niglu. The loth 
the wind continued in the fame quarter as before; 
and the weather was much the fame, attended by a 
difagreeable chillnefs in the air, as that of the pre- 
ceding day. All the principal ftars of the above- 
mentioned condellations very clearly and diflindlly 
appeared, through the feemingly fiery vapour, with 
which the tradl occupied by them was fo flrangely and 
lb remarkably tinged. 
As the luminous appearance fcen at London, be- 
tween eight and nine o'clock, the fame night, from 
the fhort account given of it in one of the public (i) 
papers, feems to have agreed in all refpccts with 
that obferved by me at Oxford, at the very fame 
time, it may be ccnfidered, without any impropriety, 
as the very meteor here defcribed. Admit this, and 
I can fee nothing improbable or unnatural in fueh a 
fuppofition, and it mufi; be allowed, that the atmo- 
fphere was at London in the fame difpofition, with 
regard to the exhibition of this fpecies of meteors, as at 
Oxford, the very fame inftant of time ; and impreg- 
nated in both places with the fame kind of luminous 
vapour, at that inftant, which occafioned the pro- 
dudion of the phaenomenon I have here been endea- 
vouring to deferibe. 
(i) The Gazetteer and Evening Advertifer, N® 1265. Sep- 
tember II, 1769. 
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