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panded itfelf in fuch a manner, that it covered a 
very large and extenfive traCt in that part of the he- 
misphere where it firft appeared. In this date the 
meteor continued till y h 45' P. M. when it aftumed 
a deep blood-red colour, moving a little towards the 
weft, which gave it a very awful afpeCt. Mr. Cleaver 
imparted to me no particulars relative to its extinction, 
but only faid, that he faw not the fainteft traces of 
it after eight o’clock, fo that it might probably about 
that time, or a little before, have totally difap- 
peared. 
The fame night, at 8 h ic/ P. M. I faw in the 
great quadrangle of Chrift-church, and that part of 
Fifh-Street adjoining to it, feveral lucid dreamers, 
afcending in the N. and N. W. from the horizon, 
or rather a dufky kind of vapour contiguous to it, to 
a very conliderable height. Thefe all moved towards 
the S. and S. E. with great velocity; and foon after 
many other fimilar ftreams of light fhot up from the 
horizon, in various parts of the hemifphere, parti- 
cularly in theS. and S. E. They were all of a very 
pale yellow colour, fuch as thofe that form the 
Aurora Boreales of the common kind. They con- 
ftantly multiplied, in fo amazing a manner, and with 
fuch furprizing celerity, that by 8 h i5'P. M. they 
feemed to have almoft intirely covered the greateft part 
of the hemifphere, and then centered in a point a little 
to the S. of the zenith. They were attended by an in- 
finite number of flafhes, or corufcations, and undu- 
lations of the lucid matter, as * is ufual in fuch phe- 
nomena. In fine, the whole atmol'phere, or rather 
* Philofoph . TranfaSl. ubi fup. p. 367 , 473. & alib. 
die' 
