It were endless to mention all the different Figures these Meteors put on, and the different Motions wherewith they are agitated. Their motion is most commonly like that of a pair of Colours waved in the Air and the different Tints of the Light give them the appearance of so many Streamers of that sort of Taffetas which we call changeable. Sometimes they line a part of the sky with scarlet. On the 15th of December I saw at Oswer-Tornea a Phenomenon of this kind, which raised my admiration, in the midst of all the Wonders. I was now every day accustomed to it. There appeared to the South, a great space of the sky tinged with so lively a red, that the whole Constellation of Orion look’d as if it had been dipt in blood. This Light, which was fixt at first, soon moved, and changing to other colours, Violet and Blue, settled into a Dome, whose top stood a little to the South and West of the Zenith. The Moon shone bright, but did not in the least efface it. In this country, where there are Lights of many different colours, I never saw but two that were red; and such are taken as Presages of a great Misfortune.