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8. We find the blood red aujlralis Aurora pre- 
ceding at Spalding , as with us at London. This 
Year has been more remarkable than any tor Fire- 
balls, Thunder, Lightning, and Corufcations, al r 
moft throughout all England. Fire-balls more than 
one were Teen in Rutland and Lincolujhire , and 
particularly obRrved. All thefe kinds of Meteors 
are rightly judged to proceed from a State of Elec- 
tricity in the Earth and Atmosphere. 
9 Mr. Jfoktifon, in both his Letters to me on 
the fi.ft and fecond Earthquakes at Spalding , re- 
marks particularly of their EtFeds being moftiy 
lpread to the North and South, and efpecially felt 
on the Sea-coaft. We may obferve that fuch is the 
Direction of Spalding River, which both conducts 
and (Lengthens the electric Vibration ; conveying 
it along the Sea-fhore, thence up Bojlon Chanel, and 
io up Bojlon River to Lincoln j as we difeern, by 
catting our Eye upon a Map. 
We obierve further, that the main of this fecond 
Earthquake dilplay’d its Effects along and between 
the two Rfvers Welland and Avon j and that from 
their very Origins down to their Fail into the Sea. It 
likewife reached the River Wit ham , which directed, 
the electric Stream that Way too to Lincoln : For 
-which Rcafon, as there meeting the fame coming 
from Bojlon, the Shock was moft fenfbly felt. It 
reached likewife to the Trent at Nottingham , which 
convey’d it to Newark. 
The firft electrical Stroke feems to have been 
made on the high Ground above Davcntry in North - 
amptonflire, where the Roman Camps arc, made 
by Ojiorius die Proprietor. From thence it dc- 
: feended 
