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fpOLit was difcQvered behind this laft. 



A cloud of fleam formed 



.below, and moved upv/ards in a fpiral, in a fliape gradually decreaf- 



ing towards the ilimmit. 



Another cloud of a long flender form, 



tapering towards its lower extremity, feemed to defcend towards 

 the ;riiing fpout, and both ends united and became cylindrical and 

 ered ^ but in time moving to the South-Eafl, it aiiumed an oblique 

 and curved form -, and at laft, when it broke, we obferved in its 

 -neighbourhood, a flalh of lightning, but heard no explofion. 



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fpout next us had difappeared a fliort time before. It was then jufl 

 iive o'clock, and the thermometer was at 540. We had feveral 

 fhowers during the time of the appearance of the water- fpouts, and 

 had hauled up the courfes, and clued up the top-fails. 



After the hard gale, which had blown the fame year, from the 

 22d of October, at noon, till we were off Cape Pallifer on the 29th, 



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the gale flill continuing ftrong, and the fea turbulent, I was told 

 by the officers of our fliip, that in the morning-watch feveral wa- 

 ter- fpouts had been feen. At eight o'clock we had a flight fhower 

 of rain, and immediately after the wind changed, the thermometer 



being at 5 1 1°. 



From thefe fadls, I beg leave to draw the following corollaries. 

 ' Firjl.y Water- fpouts feem to be formed by eddies of winds, which, 



their conflid: 



fe a circular 



ofth 



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buting 



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ILowards the raifing of the fea- water in fleam ; and the vacuum, 



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