only the seeds of the small henbit, growing thereabouts 

 in great plenty. So in the Archipelago it was thought 

 ashes were rained, with which ships were covered for 

 many leagues. But in truth, they came from an erup- 

 tion of Vesuvius, happening at that lime. More lately* 

 it was reported atWarminster, in Wiltshire,, that it rained 

 wheat. But the supposed wheat, was really ivy-ber- 

 ries, blown thither in a considerable quantity by a hurri- 

 cane. Nay, in 1696, a ^ e ^ uear-Cranstead, in Kent, 

 was overspread with young whitings, supposed to fall 

 from the clouds, but doubtless brought thither from the 

 sea by a violent storm. 



Nor is it strange that any of these things should be 

 thus transported by tempestuous winds, considering to 

 what distance, and in what quantities the sea water was 

 carried by the storm, Nov. 26, 17G3. A physician 

 travelling soon after,, tvventy miles from the sea, chewing/ 

 some tops of hedges, found them salt. The grass of 

 the down, about Lewes,, was so salt, that for some 

 time the sheep could not eat it. And the miller, three 

 miles from the sea, attempting with his man to secure 

 Iiis mill, were so washed with flashes of sea water, that 

 they were almost strangled. 



A few years ago, during a violent storm of wind-, 

 much rain fell iu the western part of Cornwall, which 

 was mere sea water, as salt as lhat which was just, 

 taken out of the sea. It seemed to have been drawn 

 out of the sea, and thrown upon the land in the same 

 hour: so that there was no time for that wonderful 

 operation of nature, whereby the water that ascends in 

 clouds, is freed from its salt, and .bituminous particles,, 

 .before it ful&to the earth. 



3. When the particles of wafer in a cloud are frozen, 

 it occasions snow, which floats in the air till it is driven 

 together, so as to be heavy enough to sink. When the 

 drops of rain in falling toward the earth, meet with a 

 steam of< cold , air , they are often froze iota ke ? and so 



