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ATMOSPHERICAL PHENOMENA. 
longer proceeaed as an entire mass.but was 'I'j 
ti*3. 
into a great number, or cluster of balls, some 
Jie others, and all tarrying a tail, or leaving a ^ 
Under this form, it continued its course^wim^j^ 
pquable motion, dropping, or casting off 
yielding a prodigious light, which i 
illumined all J i 
, o I — o — ° . , f ai’*' ip 
surprising degree ; until, having passed the eas • 
ing considerably to tlie southvvard, jt gradua l^ 
and was at length lost to the sight, 
ance was gh. l6min. P. M. mean time 
'The time ‘ 
of the 
London, and it continued visible about half a 
This beautiful meteor having been seen in 
;n tlie northern parts of Scotland, ascending 
and rising like the planet Mars, little doubt 
of its course having commenced beyond the 
mity of this island, somewhere over 
the of 
Having proceeded over Essex, and the Straits 
it probably entered the continent not far froif , 
where, as well as at Calais and Ostend, it 
soU'*’.,"' 
o bo r-ertical. Still holding on its course to ih® j 3 ur^‘''df) 
•t was seen at Brussels, at Paris, and at Nuits n' 
insomuch that there was sufficient proof 
traversed thirteen or fourteen degrees of latittid®' 
a track of at least one thousand miles over ff® 
^ — ^ 
earth j — a length of course far exceeding the 
had been then ascertained of any similar 
Daring the passage of this meteor over i^jiv' 
moon appeared quite red, but soon I'ecoyeiei if 
light. The results of several observations give ' 
of more than fifty miles above the surface m 
a region where the air k at least thirty thousar^ 
*.han here below. Notwithstanding this great it ^ 
ft\ci of a report having been heard some aC^ 
• Wl 
0^/ 
ili/f 
Cleared, rests on tlie testimony of too many 
controverted. It was compared to the fi ^ ^ 
heavy body in a room above stairs, or to tb® j jl" 
one or more large cannon at a distance : ^ ^ 
loudest in Lincolnshire, and the , adjacent cooh 
in the eastern parts of Kent. 
0e^^fo<O 
If y 
Supposing the transverse diameter of this ^ 
subtended an angle of 30 minutes v/hen it . Jif^ 
.-1. ;r mm 
■zenith , and that it was fifty a'”c3 high, it 
