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and Twiggs of the Txees, in Fields re- 

 mote from the Sea, tafted very fait, fo 

 that the Cattle wou'd not feed on 

 them. 



Our Hiftories mention another Storm, 

 which if not equal to this laft in Vio- 

 lence y is' however thought the greateft: 

 that had then ever been known and me- 

 morable from the time at which it hap- 

 pened, viz>. on the 3d of September, 

 1658. the day on which the Ufurper 0. 

 Cromwel died. 



No Ephemerides that I know of relate 

 the Condition of the Air that Year, but 

 it is fufficient to remark, That whatever 

 other Caufes concurred, their force was 

 accompanied with a Full Moon, juft 

 before the time of the Atumnal Equi- 

 nox. 



< Upon the fame fcore it comes to pafs, 

 That in thofe Countries which are Sub- 

 ject to frequent Inundations , thefe 

 Calamities are obferved to happen at 

 the times of the Moons greateft Influ- 

 ence, fo that the Learned Baccius (a) 

 has rightly enough laid the Caufe of fuch 

 Mifchiefs upon immoderate Tides of the 

 Ocean, being unhappily accompanied 



with 



(a) Del Tevere, lib. p.ziS. 



