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“ winds meeting in a point or centre ; and where the great- 
“¢ eft condenfation and gravitation was, falling down into 
“¢ a pipe or great tube (fomething like the cochlea Archi- 
“© medis ) and that in its working or whirling motion, ei- 
‘* ther fucks up water, or deftroys fhips, &c. Having tra~ 
© velled about a quarter of a mile farther, it diffolved by 
“ the prevalency of the wind that came out of the eaft.” 
The account of the other is as follows, viz. “ I have 
‘* feen another {pout in the fame place, which very much 
“confirms me in my notion of the origin and nature of 
“ them.—The 21ftof June, 1702, was pretty warm; on 
“ the afternoon of which day, about two of the clock, 20 
“ wind fiirring below though it was fomewhat great in the 
* air, the clouds began to be mightily agitated and driven 
“ together; whereupon they became very black, and were 
“ (moft vifibly) hurried round, from whence proceeded a 
“ moft audible whirling noife, like that commonly heard 
“in a mill. After a while, a long tube or {pout came 
“down from the centre of the congregated clouds, in 
“which was a fwift /pzral motion like that of a fcrew, or 
“ the cochlea Archimedis when it is in motion, by which 
“ fpiral nature and fwift turning, water afcends up into 
“the one as well as into the other. It travelled flowly 
“ from weit to north-eaft, broke down a great oak tree or 
“two, frighted fome out of the fields, and made others 
“lie down flat upon their bellies, to fave being whirled 
- about and killed by it, as they faw many jackdaws to 
“be, that were fuddenly caught up, carried out of fight, 
“ and then caft a great way amonett the corn; at laft it 
“ pafled over the town of Hatfield, to the great terror of 
“ the inhabitants, filling the whole air with the thatch that 
“it plucked off from fome of the houfes ; then touching 
*¢ upon a corner of the church, it tore up feveral fheets of 
“ Jead, and rolled them ftrangely together; foon after 
‘«« which it diffolved and vanifhed without doing any fur- 
“ ther mifchief. 
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