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w’ midnight not any traces of tliis phe- 
throughout Italy, as the 
jjjfc « - 
*'^'^°'mts will show. 
J; ,^'r °n the appearance of this extraordinaiy mete»r 
W''6 in and the barometer remarkably high 
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■ii, ''f a afternoon a blackish zone, with its upper 
appeared near the horizon ; and above 
^ h.. another, very_ luminous, resembling the 
*ar advanced. 
«'■/ cqi auvanceu. The highest zone was of a 
’h. ® o’clock, the upper parts 
\| i'^eir J*.®*’aitted an abundance of red streamings, or 
aqj colour being occasionally intermixed with 
ji a''*'ish spots. In a few seconds after, there 
|.V®dto a red and very bright column, which 
third part of the heavens, and which, a 
“ust • ^ rainbow. At half past 
^ tvesf '*'^'^antaneously, the bright zone, from eight 
^(1 J,! . to fiftBf fioef Koo'ii 
fifty degrees east, became more vivid, 
\ above this appeared a new large one, 
''Pw/j w'ith several successive streamings 
i'^*crq p‘®> and exceeding sixty degrees of altitude; 
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s^t b Sht th ^ fiaving assumed the form of a thin cloud. 
'Nik ®tior,;. splendid lights disappeared entirely. 
this 
Or ■" ““’■P*'‘sing meteor spread to such an 
j®Py about one hundred and forty degrees of 
at was so vivid that houses could be dis- 
'■ *’ eight in the evening, at a very considerable 
V ) aiitj tif ^ evening, at a very considerable 
^^^^'''ere so reddened, that many persons 
V.^'Jro 
i| ■‘'^■'ora •’ ^ neighbourhood. At that 
|ortned itself into a concave arch towards 
“*■ eastern limit, a 
i>. c. luplayed, of a more intense colour towards 
*, '^it ‘ fi-otj, I ‘ayect, ot a more intense colour towards 
\ X . cf l|- , centre of which there shot up vertically 
hetween a white and a yellow colour. 
'Vf.K 'it 
UJ Cf.. 
'I't “ <errn°"" crossed the whole phenomenon, 
' pyramid. At the upper part. 
,;Ss o°’«mns 
^ X / ^ , 
c tract of the heavens was enlightened by 
.. . fight, which was interrupted by several 
of a bright yellowish light. These 
'Utl '^'oud^^ vertically, and parallel to each other, 
Vre* .^®®*'iitig to serve them as a basis. Under 
issued forth two tails of a whitish light. 
