TOL. XXiV.] PHILOSOPHICAL TKANSACTIONST. Q3 



W. N. W. vid. Phil. Trans. N° 262. Another remarkable storm was Feb. 3, 

 1702, at which time was the greatest descent of the mercury ever known : this 

 I number g degrees. But this kst of November, I number at least 15 

 degrees. 



I have accounts of the violence of the storm at Norwich, Beccles, Sudbury, 

 Colchester, Rochford, and several other intermediate places. 



I have just received an account from a clergyman, an intelligent person, at 

 Lewes in Sussex, not only that the storm made great desolations thereabouts, 

 but also an odd circumstance was occasioned by it, viz. " That a physician 

 travelling soon after the storm to Tisehyrst, about 20 miles from Lewes, and as 

 far from the sea, as he rode he plucked some tops of hedges, and chewing them 

 he found them salt. Some ladies of Lewes hearing this, tasted some grapes 

 that were still on the vines, and they also had the same relish. The grass on 

 the downs in his parish was so salt, that the sheep in the morning would not 

 feed, till hunger compelled them, and afterwards drank copiously, as the 

 shepherds report. This he attributes to saline particles driven from the sea. — 

 He hears also, that people about Portsmouth were much annoyed with sulphure- 

 ous fumes, coiiiplaiiiiug they were almost suffocated with them," 



Observations an the same Storm. By M. Leuwenhoeck. N° 28^, p. 1533. ' 



Upon the 8th of December, 1 703, N. S. we had a dreadful storm from the 

 south west, insomuch that the water, mingled with small parts of chalk and 

 stone, was so dashed against the windows, that many of them were darkened 

 with it ; and the lower windows of my house were not opened till 8 o'clock that 

 morning, notwithstanding that they look to the north east, and consequently 

 stood from the wind, and though guarded from the rain by a kind of shelf 

 or pent-house over them, were yet so covered with the particles of the 

 water which the whirl-wind cast against them, that in less than half an hour they 

 were deprived of most of their transparency. Supposing this might be sea-water 

 which the storm had not only dashed against our windows, but spread also over 

 the whole country, I viewed the particles with my microscope, and found they 

 had the figure of our comman salt, but very small, because the water was little 

 from whence those small particles proceeded ; and where the water had lain very 

 thin upon the glass, there were indeed a great number of salt particles, but so 

 exceedingly fine that they almost escaped the sight through a very good mi- 

 croscope. 



But as to the upper windows, where the rain had beat against them, and 

 washed them, there was little or no salt to be found sticking upon them. 



During the said storm, and about 8 o'clock in the morning, casting my eye 



