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little fermenting Sparks, and often kindle 

 them into an aftual Fire. And Obfervance 

 of the Meteors there might perhaps not be 

 Impertinent, as both what are more rare, 

 and what are more frequent, as of Gojimore 

 in great abundance, and of thofe fmall Cob- 

 webs in a Morning, which fome have fuppo- 

 fed to be Meteors. Jgnes fatui^ tho' there 

 be many boggy Swamps and Marihes, are 

 feldom, if any are feen there. There be fre- 

 quent little forts of Whirl-winds, whofe Di- 

 ameter may be fometimes not paft two or 

 three Yards, fometimes forty, which whisk- 

 ing round in a Circle, pafs along the Earthy 

 according to the motion of the Cloud, from 

 whence they ifliie and as they pafs along 

 with their gyrous or circular motion, they 

 carry aloft the dry Leaves into the Air, which 

 fall again often in places far remote. I have 

 feen them defcend in a calm Sun-fliine Day, 

 as if they had come from the Heavens in 

 great Showers thereof, fo that all the Ele- 

 ments feemM filled therewith. And I could 

 perceive them to defcend from on high as far 

 as I could poflibly difcern a Leaf, i remem- 

 ber a I'oguiih Expreffion of a Seamen, other- 

 wife filly enough, who wondering thereat, 

 cry'd out. Sure now ^tis manifefi there is a 

 World above ! and now with them 'tis the Fall 

 of the Leaf But to proceed, I thought this 

 made it manifeft, whence many preternatu- 

 ral Showers have happened. I remember at 

 Sir Richard yithertori^s in Lanca^ire^ feme few 

 Years ago, there fell a great number of the 

 Seeds of I\ry-berries at firft we admired what 

 they were, for they wj^re covered v/ith a thin 



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