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it; whence the water muft neceffarily afcend, as in any 
common hydraulic machine; and that with a force pro- 
portional to the preffure of the atmofphere upon the fur- 
rounding furface, now greatly increafed by the confluence 
of thofe currents. . 
Before I clofe this fubje&, I fhall juft mention, without 
making any remarks, the effe&s which a whirlwind had 
amongft a number of fhocks of corn at Warrington in 
Northamptonfhire, Auguft 1ft, 16943; out of which from 
eighty to a hundred fhocks were carried up into the air, 
a great part of them out of fight; thefe when the fury of 
the blaft was fpent, fell down again at the diftance of fome 
miles from their own field. The account of this whirl- 
wind immediately precedes the article laft quoted from the 
P hilofophical Tran/actions. Should the foregoing theory be 
adjudged tenable, it will render very credible thofe ftrange 
accounts which we have fometimes had, of its raining tad- 
poles and frogs, which have been found upon the tops of 
houfes after a fhower; and even {mall fithes, a fhower of 
which fell at Cranftead near Wrotham in Kent, anno 1696, 
onthe Wednelfday before Eafter (Lowthorp’s abridgement of 
Philofophical Tranfactions, vol. Ilpage 144.) For fhould 
one of thofe aerial pipes pafs over a frog pond, or the 
fhallow parts of a fifh pond, the fame natural caufe which 
in a {pout at fea, would carry up the water from the ocean, 
would alfo carry up the water from the ponds aforefaid, 
together with the contents; whether tadpoles, frogs or 
fifhes: Thefe muft defcend again fomewhere; and where- 
ever they fell, a fhower of fifhes, frogs or tadpoles, would. 
be the confequence.. 
Experiments 
