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CO ROLLARY. 



IT having bin explained in the Begin- 

 ning of this Difcourfe,how thofe In- 

 fluences of the Heavens, which fa- 

 vour the Returns of Difeafes, may like- 

 wife x&iizWinds at the ft me times ^ and 

 that We feel the different Effefts of Thefe 

 according as other Caufes do concurr to 

 the Motion of the Air 5 it will not be 

 amifs, to fliew in one Inftance or two, 

 how much Natural Hiftory confirms this 

 Reafoning. 



There happened on the 26th of No- 

 vember, 1703, a little before Midnight, 

 a moft terrible Storm of Wind^ the Fu- 

 ry of it is (till frefh in every ones Mind, 

 which lafted above fix Hours. 



It is not to the prefent purpofe to re- 

 late its Hiftory and Caufes 5 What we 

 obferve is, That the Moon was at that 

 time in Perigao, and juft upon the 

 change to New. Upon both which ac- 

 counts its Adion in raifing the Atmo- 

 fphere muft be great 5 And hence indeed 

 the Tides which followed were alfo very 



great, 



