Mr. Pafchal to Mr. Ray. 2 8 1 



Pi S. The miraculous Cure upon the French Maid 

 ^as in the midft of a Tyding Senary 5 the Power that 

 effefted it made ufe of a heighten^ Imagination, and 

 a vigorous Seafon. 



Of thefe Senaries fee Mr, PafchalVs Opinion in Phi* 

 lof. Tranfaff. N° 202. TV. D. 



THere are divers Letters of Mr. Lhtvyd's to Mr* 

 Ray, relating to this unufual Fire here menti- 

 oned y which I omit publifhing by reafon there is an 

 Account of Mr. Lhwyd's and Mr. Jones's in PhiL 

 TranfaEl. N° 208, 213. but this Letter having fome 

 of Mr. Ldwyd's Thoughts about it, not there pub- 

 lifh'd, I thought it convenient to entertain the Rea- 

 der with it. ! TV. D. 



I Mr. Lhwyd to Mr. Ray. 



Honoured Sir, Oxford, May 27, 169^ 



YOur laft was of January zz. fince which time I 

 have not been able (thq 5 I haveendeavour'dit ve- 

 ry much by fending Queries to the Countrey) to give 

 you any farther and more accurate Account of that pro- 

 digious Fire I then alarm'd you with. I understand on- 

 ly in general, that it lafted at leaft three or four Months j 

 nay fome add that it ftill continues, tho' not in the 

 fame Place * but appears up farther in the Countrey, 

 and that it has been alfo commonly feen on the Sea 

 Coaft .of Caernarvon/hire. The reafon that induced 

 me at the beginning to think of the Locufts, was on- 

 ly a random Guefs, that fo ftrange and unheard of Ef- 

 fe£ts muft proceed from fome Caufe no lefs unufual: 

 For if ever our Sea or Land had been capable of their 

 own Nature to produce fuch a Meteor, I fhould ex- 

 pert to find it recorded, that at one tiipe or other, 



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