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ftreams of light feem to have their fource In two 
other parhelia, which rile with the true fun ; and 
in the winter feafon, when the fun never rifes out 
of the above-mentioned haze, all three accompany 
him the whole day, and fet with him, in the fame 
manner that they rofe. I h&ve, once or twice, feen 
a fourth parhelion diredtly under the true fun ; but 
this is not common. 
The aurora-borealis, which has been reprefcnted 
as very extraordinary in thofe parts, bears, in my 
opinion, no companion to what I have feen in the 
north parts of England. It is always of the fame 
form here, and eonfifts of a narrow, fteady flream 
of a pale ft raw- coloured light, which rifes out of 
the horizon, about E. S. E. and extends itfelf through 
the zenith, and vanifhes near the horizon, about the 
W. N. W. It has very feldom any motion at all; and 
when it has, it is only a fmall tremulous one on the 
two borders. 
I fhall now reflime my journal. Monday, Auguft 
28, we took down the inftruments, packed them up, 
and put them on board the fhip, expeifting to have 
failed the next day ; but unforefeen accidents de- 
tained the captain until t? September the 2d, when 
we took leave of the governor and officers of the 
factory, and came on board the ftiip. We were after 
this detained by contrary winds until the 7th ; on 
which day, about 1 5 h we faw the comet, which 
was obferved this year in England, in a right line 
between £ Orionis and Procyon ; and alfo in a 
right line with Aldebaran, and a Orionis; but be- 
low both. About i8 h we failed out of the river 
with a fine breeze from the weft ; and at noon I ob- 
ferved, with great care, the fun’s meridional altitude 
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