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LETTER LXVI. 



To the same. 



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 sometimes 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 fact for 



