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XLYI. An Account of a very remarkable. 
Meteor feen at Oxford. In a Letter t$ 
Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. from the 
Rev . John Swinton, B. D . F. R . S. Cuftos 
Archivorum of the Univerfety of Oxford, 
Member of the Academy degli Apatifti at 
Florence, and of the Etrufcan Academy of 
Cortona in Tufcany. 
Good Sir, 
in the air here, on Tuefday, October 24, 1769, as 
far as I have hitherto been able to learn, was the 
Rev. Mr. Cleaver, ftudent of Chrift-Church j who, 
on his return home, at a village called Horton, fix 
or feven miles from Oxford, about y h if P. M. 
obferved, with lome degree of aftonifhment, a dark 
fufcous vapour, refembling a blackifh cloud, con- 
' tiguous to the northern horizon. Out of this vapour 
there ifiiied another of a flame colour, in the N.N. W.. 
not unlike the meteor feen by me, Sept. 9, 1769, 
and defcribed in the lafit volume of the Philofophical 
‘Tranfafiions*. His account of it, if I remember 
right, was, that “ it looked like an houfe, or build- 
“ ing, fet on fire.” This at firft was confined to a. 
very fmall fpace in the heavens, but foon after ex- 
* Pbilofoph. Tranfaft, Vol. LIX. for the Year 1769, p. 369, 
37°>37 r >37* 
Head Dec. 20, 
1770. 
T 
H E perfon that firft faw the very 
remarkable luminous appearances 
