Considering, then, all these facts so positively affirmed, concerning these various, most curious phaenomena:--the explosions;--the sparks;--the lights;--the hissing noises;--the stones seen to fall;--the stones dug up hot, and even smoking;--and some scorching, and even burning other bodies in their passage;--we cannot but also bring to remembrance, what Sir John Pringle affirmed to have been observed; concerning a fiery meteor, seen on Sunday, the 26th of November, 1758, in several parts of England and Scotland.[KK] That the head, which appeared about half the diameter of the moon, was of a bright white, like iron when almost in a melting heat;[LL] the tail, which appeared about 8 deg. in length, was of a duskish red, burst in the atmosphere, when the head was about 7 deg. above the horizon, and disappeared; and in the room thereof were seen three bodies like stars, within the compass of a little more than three degrees from the head, which also kept descending with the head. That before this, in another place, near Ancram in Scotland, (where the same meteor was seen) one-third of the tail, towards the extremity, appeared _to break off_, and to separate into sparks, resembling stars.--That soon after this the body of the meteor had its light extinguished, with an explosion; but, as it seemed to the observer there, _the form of the entire figure of the body, quite black, was seen to go still forwards in the air_.[MM] By some persons, also, an hissing noise[NN] was apprehended to be heard. Whether this might, or might not be an ignited body, of the kind we have been describing, falling to the earth, deserves consideration. Sir John Pringle seems to have been convinced that it was really _a solid substance_; but fairly adds,[OO] that if such meteors had really ever fallen to the earth, there must have been, long ago, so strong evidence of the fact, as to leave no room to doubt. Perhaps, in the preceding accounts, we have such evidence, _now_ fairly collected together; at least in a certain degree. I take all the facts, just as I find them affirmed. I have preserved a faithful and an honest record. For the sake of possible philosophical use;--let the philosophical, and curious just preserve these facts in remembrance. For the sake of philological advantage;--let the discerning weigh, and judge. For (if such things be,) what has so often come to pass, according to what is commonly called _the usual course of nature_; may most undoubtedly, henceforth, without any hesitating doubts, be believed to have been brought to pass, on an extraordinary occasion, in a still more tremendous manner, by the immediate _fiat of the Almighty_. Let no man scoff; lest he drives away the means of real information.--And let all men _watch_, for the increase of science.--