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when the water rises; and emptied, running towards Thessalonica or Con- 

 stantinople, when it descends. I wrote to tlie F. Vabois, desiring him to ob- 

 serve; and he took notice of the same at Constantinople, viz. that the waters of 

 the Black Sea, that come from Constantinople, drive the Euripus in its rising 

 towards the main sea, and that thereafter the waters retire themselves towards 

 the same place again whence they came. That swelling of the Euripus which 

 is irregular, lasts not above a quarter of an hour, and the sinking three quarters; 

 though then the water ran with more rapidity, and seemed to us to come away 

 in thrice as great plenty, as when it rose. — Between the ascent and descent 

 there is a little interval, wherein the water seems to be at rest and stagnating ; 

 so that, if there be no wind stirring it, bits of wood and straw lie still upon the 

 water without motion. 



From what I have said, it is not difficult to reconcile the authors that have 

 written so differently of the Euripus. For those who have said that there is 

 nothing in it but what is seen in the ocean, viz. Two fluxes and refluxes in 24 

 hours, have only observed it in those 20 days of its regularity. And the ancients 

 have not delivered a falsehood, when they say that there are seven reciprocations 

 in one day, because that happens when the winds trouble and retard the course 

 of the water : and I assure you, by often reiterated observations, that when it 

 is still weather, the flux and reflux is made even to nine or ten times in a 

 natural day. 



A Relation of ttvo considerable Hurricanes in Northamptonshire. By 

 Mr. John Templer of Brayhrooh. iY" 71, p- 2156. 



October 30, 1 669, between five and six o'clock in the afternoon, the wind 

 being westerly, at Ashley, in Northamptonshire, there happened a formidable 

 hurricane, scarce bearing sixty yards in its breadth, and spending itself in about 

 seven minutes of time. Its first observed assault was on a milk-maid, taking 

 her pail and hat from off her head, and carrying her pail many scores of yards 

 from her, where it lay undiscovered some days. Next it stormed the yard of 

 one Sprigg, in Westthorp, a name of one part of the town, where it blew a 

 waggon body off the axle-trees, breaking the wheels and axle-trees in pieces, 

 and blowing three of the wheels so shattered over a wall : this waggon stood 

 somewhat cross to the passage of the wind. Another waggon of Mr. Salisbury's 

 was driven with great speed on its wheels against the side of his house. A 

 branch of an ash-tree, so large that two stout men could scarce lift it, was blown 

 over Mr. Salisbury's house, without hurting it; and yet this branch was torn 

 from a tree 100 yards distant from the house. A slate was carried near 200 



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