LETTER LXVI. 



To the same. 



E are very seldom annoyed with thunder- 

 storms ; and it is no less remarkable than 

 true, that those which arise in the south 

 have hardly been known to reach this village ; 

 for, before they get over us, they take a 

 direction to the east or to the west, or some- 

 times divide in two, go in part to one of 

 those quarters, and in part to the other; as was truly the 

 case in summer 1783, when, though the country round was 

 continually harassed with tempests, and often from the south, 

 yet we escaped them all, as appears by my journal of that 

 summer. The only way that I can at all account for this 

 facf for such it is is that, on that quarter, between us 

 and the sea, there are continual mountains, hill behind hill, 



