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As very few, if any, inflances of this ifpecies of 
-meteors, which greatly differ from the common 
Jlurorce Boreaks, have occurred fince Dr. Halley’s 
death, which happened in the beginning of 17425 
and as I am fully perfuaded of his having declared to 
me at Greenwich, as has been already obferved, that 
he had met with only one of them, in the whole 
courfe of his obfervations ; I was inclined to believe^ 
that the fhort account of another, or rather two others, 
of them, tranfmitted to you in this paper, would not 
prove unacceptable to the Royal Society, and there- 
fore that you would excufe the trouble given on this 
occafion, by. 
Good Sir, 
Your much obliged^ 
and moft obedient, 
Chrift-Church, Oxon. 
Sept. 30, 1769. 
humble fervant, 
John Swinton. 
P. S. October 2, 1769. We had laft night here 
fome beautiful Aurorce BorealeSy of the common 
kind j which began to appear in the north and north- 
eaft, a little after 8*^, and continued till near p*' P. M. 
The flalhes, or corufcations, were of a very pale yellow 
colour, and fome of them afcended up to the zenith 1 
the undulations of fhining matter were quick and nu- 
merous, and the city almoft as light as if illumina- 
tions had been made in feveral parts of it. 
L. Ob/ef^ 
