X. An account of the meteors of the 18th of August and 4th of October, 1783

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Having been fortunate enough to see both the Meteors, of the 18th of August and of the 4th of October last, I think it my duty to communicate the observations I made upon them to the Royal Society. We are in general so little acquainted with these phænomena, that too many accounts of them cannot be collected, in order to enable us to form some idea of their nature, path, magnitude, and distance from the earth. It is not to be expected, that an observer, in the open air, to whom the appearance comes totally unexpected, can give a perfect account of it; but by going afterwards to this spot from which he saw it, he may, by the assistance of the objects about him, and some proper instruments, come near the truth: I have followed this method; and it is the result thence deduced I have the honour of communicating to the Society.

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