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guns, or the founding of horns, was eafily 

 extinguilhed. All the damage was done 

 invariably in the night, and in the courfe 

 of the winter not lefs than fixteen hay 

 ricks and two barns, one filled with corn, 

 and the other with hay, were burnt by it, 

 It did not feem to" affe<5t any thing elfe, 

 and men --could go into it without receiving 

 the leaft injury. It is faid, that though it 

 was feen oftener during the firft three 

 weeks than it was afterwards, yet it was 

 obferved at different intervals of time for at 

 leaft eight months.* The occaiion of this 

 iingular phenomenon is not exactly known. 

 It appears moft probably to have arifen 

 from fome collections of putrid fubftances, 

 the vapour coming from which might have 

 been directed towards this place by the 



* Letter from Mr. Maurice Jones, inferred in 

 the Philofophical Tranfa&ions. See Lowthorp's 

 Abridgement, II. 183. 



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