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Anno Dom. 



1666. The Small Pox at Bqfton. Seven flain by Light- 

 ning, and divers Burnt: This Year also New-England had 

 caft away, and taken 31 Veffels, and fome in 1667. 



1667. Mr. John Wilfon Paftor of B0JI071 Dyed, aged 

 79 Years. 



1670. At a place called Kenibunck, which is in the 

 Province of Meyne, a Colony belonging to the Heir of that 

 Honourable Knight Sir Ferdinando Gorges; not far from 

 the River fide, a piece of Clay Ground was thrown up by 

 a Mineral'vapour (as we fuppofed) over the tops of high 

 Oaks that grew between it and the River, into the River, 

 flopping the courfe thereof, and leaving a hole two Yards 

 fquare, "wherein were thoufands of [114] Clay Bullets as 

 big as Mufquet Bullets, and pieces of Clay in fhape like 

 the Barrel of a Mufquet. 1 



1 See Josselyn's Voyages, p. 204 and p. 277, where the " hole" is said to have 

 been, not " two," but " forty, yards square : " and we are farther told that " the 

 like accident fell out at Casco, one and twenty miles from it to the eastward, 

 much about the same time ; and fish, in some ponds in the countrey, thrown up 

 dead upon the banks, — supposed likewise to be kill'd with mineral vapours." 

 Hubbard (Hist. N.E., chap. 75) tells this, partly in the same words with the 

 account in the Voyages, and adds, "All the whole town of Wells are witnesses 

 of the truth of this relation ; and many others have seen sundry of these clay 

 pellets, which the inhabitants have shown to their neighbours of other towns." 

 And compare also the following, at p. 1S9 of the Voyages : " In 1669, the pond 

 that Iyeth between Watertown and Cambridge cast its fish dead upon the shore ; 

 forc't by a mineral vapour, as was conjectured." 



