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wards, while anotker foon after came down from the clouds, and 



joined the former. 



A little while after, we faw three more of thefc 



columns forming, the neafeft of which was at the diftance of about 



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three miles ; at its bafe, where it v/as confiderably the largeft, (its 



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diameter appearing at that diflance to be of 70 or 80 fathom in ex- 

 tent) the water of the fea was violently agitated, rofe in vapours 

 and fleam, and, being illuminated by the fun, looked bright and 



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yellowiih, efpecially againft the black clouds behind ; 

 the fun fhone out, it looked white. As thefe columns came nearer 

 towards us down the ftreights,. we had an opportunity of examining 

 them more particularly. Their diameter above, towards the clouds, 

 was larger than that in their middle, which latter feemed not to 

 exceed two or three feet. The water was whirled upwards in a 

 fpiral : fometimes it feemed that there was a hollow fpace within 

 the column, and that the water formed only a cylinder j for the' 

 body of the column had, towards its axis, a hue different from the 

 refl, and much the appearance of a hollow glafs tube, 

 columns moved forwards on the furface of the fea, the clouds did 



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follow them equally fafl; and this circumflance gave them 



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oblique pofit 



and fometimes a curved fhap 



feemed not to be of equal velocity 



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Their motions 

 the lame di- 



redion ; one feemed therefore to pafs the others, and they were 

 viewed acrofs one another. In proportion as thej came nearer to 



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