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in magnitude, making the air very hot, shooting from the North-ward to the South-west; sparks of fire darting from it, the bigness of a man's fist. It came very near us before it disappeared, when it seemed to us to be of the bigness of a ship's boat, with a long tail extending from it, attended with a noise like thunder. As it came near the water, the body appeared as black as pitch and then vanished; the tail remaining some minutes before it disappeared.
Signed,
James Cawley.
Sworn before Michael Gill, |
The above was likewise attested upon oath by the subscribers, being sailors on board the said vessel, and at that time upon deck.
John Sullivan,
[A true Copy.]
Mark
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