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Stair-cafe, where I faw a reddifh Light, which fhone 
with fuch exceeding Brightnefs, that the Luftre 
of the fine Conftellation of Orion was almoft ef- 
faced. I then went to a Window facing the N. 
N. E. where I prefently faw a very broad Band of 
Crimfon Light, like that which I obferved from the 
fame Window, March 18. 1738-9; an Account of 
which is printed in the Phil. Tranf. N° 461. But 
in the former the red Band was bounded on the N. 
by Streams of a greenifh Blue ; whereas the Band 
now obferved was entirely of a deep Crimfon Co- 
lour, being of a much darker Red than the former. 
Thence I withdrew into my Garden, where I plain- 
ly faw a Band or Arch, of a very deep Crimfon 
Colour, in Appearance about if° broad, the South- 
ern Edge of which palled juft above Canis minor , 
and the Shoulders of Orion . It was terminated to 
the Weftward, near Venus , then about 20° high; 
but it extended to the Ealhvard as far as I could fee, 
and the farther it went that way, the deeper was 
the Colour, and the broader the Band, About a 
Quarter before Eight, there was formed a Crown 
about 30 Degrees to the Southward of the Zenith ; 
for I could plainly perceive the Pleiades , which had 
then juft: palled the Meridian, very near it, when 
the Light was faint. From this Crown a great 
many Rays darted to the E. S. and W. but not to- 
ward the N. where only fome whitiQa Streaks were 
to be feen, but very faint. Prefently after this, the 
Part of the Arch extending to the Eaft feemed to 
be fuddenly kindled, as if fome Train had been 
fired ; grew extremely bright and vivid 5 and as if all 
