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❧ The seconde Booke of fyery Meteores. (Book 2)
A Fiery impression, is an ex∣halation sett on fire, in the highest or lowest region of the ayre, or els apearing as though it were set on fire and burning.
They are therfore diuided into flames and aparitions. Flames are they, whiche burne in deade and are kindled with fire. These are discerned by iiij. wayes, by the fashion of them, by their place, by the abū∣daunce of their matter, & by the wante of their matter. Their placing is after the a∣boundaunce & scarsetie of the matter wher of they consist, for if it be great, heauie and grosse, it cannot be caried so farre as the midle region of the aire, and therfore is set on fire in the lowest region, if it be not so great, light, and full of heat, it passeth the midle region & ascendeth to the highest, where it is easely kindled & set on fire.
According to their diuerse fashiōs, they haue diuers names, for they ar called, bur∣ning stoble, torches, daunsing or leapinge Goates, shooting or falling starres, or can∣dels,