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caufed by the rarefied air in the midfl of the column, feems to at- 

 trad the clouds, and to give them a conic fliape, whofe point flands 



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Secondly From the flafh of lightning, it fhould feem, that the 



clouds were then eledric ; and that therefore the coalition of the two 



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'Thirdly y Water- fpouts are commonly formed near lands having 

 projeding promontories, within narrow feas, ftraits, and other 

 places where the winds form currents and eddies, and coming in 

 confliQ: with other winds, take a contrary direftion from the pofi- 

 tion of fome promontory or ftralt. Thofe water-fpouts, which 

 Thevenot has defcribed, were obferved in the Perfian Gulph, be- 



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tween the ifles of Guefomo, Lareca, and Ormus, A friend of 

 mine faw feveral in the inundated rice-fields along Canton river in 

 China. Dr. Shaw obferved fome in the Mediterranean, near the 



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* In the ThlloT.TranjaBlom^ vol. xlvii, n. So. p. 478. it is fakl, tliat a water-fpout in 

 ILincolnfliire ended in a fiery ftream. The fpout, which made fo great a havock at Rome, 

 June nth, 1749, obferved by. Father Bofcovvich, was continually emating Maflics of light- 

 mng on all fides. The fpout alfo defcribed by Dampier, voL iii, p. 182, camp out of 

 a black cloud, that yielded great ftore of rain, thunder, and llghtuing. See Dr. Frakk- 

 ■X.\v<\ Rxperinrnm and Olfcrn;atwns on Ek£lrldb^^ ^th edit. London, 4to. 1774- P- 229 and 

 J280. Mr, Adaufon Ukewife obferved a water-fpout preceded by a thunder-ftorm, and found 

 the fpout extremely hot, which may be chiefly owing to the inflamed air, conveyed hi this 

 ^fjwut by an Eafterly wind from the inland parts of Mrlca. Adanson^s Fojage to Scncgah 



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