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As to the Fire-balls which you heard was fecn in the 
Airjit was a great Falfhood : For I neither faw nor heard 
(during our Months flay after the Earthquake) any 
fuch thing ; but a great and hideous rumbling was heard 
in the Mountains I infomuch that it frighted mai^y Ne- 
groes that had been run away fome Months from their 
Matters, and made them come home, and promife not- 
to run away any more. 
The Water that iffued from the Saltpanm Hiffslkw 
my ftlf, as alfo Mr. Afhhorne and one Pinnock a Quaker 
of Leguanee ; it forced it's paflage out from the Hill in 
(I believe) twenty or thirty feveral places, fome more 
forcibly than others; for in eight or tea places it came 
with that Violence, that had fc many Sluces been drawn 
up at once, they could not have run with greater force ; 
and moft of them fix or feven Yards high from the Foot 
of the Hill ; three or four of the leaft of them we ob- 
ferved were near ten or twelve yards high in the Moun- 
tain. We flood fome time in looking on this miracu- 
lous fight : At length we tafted the Water in moft of the 
places-; all which we tafted, we found to be bracktih, of 
which we could not imagine the Reafon, nor from whence 
the Water fliould arife : It continued running that Af- 
ternoon, all Night, till next Morning about Sun-rife, at 
which time the Salt-panns were quite overflowed. There- 
fore you may judge it's Force in running ; for both Salt' 
fanns and Mountain you know very well. 
The Mountains betwixt Spant(h Town and Sixteen- 
Mile-Walk, as the W^ay lies along the River, if you re- 
member, about the mid-way they are almoft perpendi- 
cular, efpecially on the other fide the River ; thofe two 
Mountains in the violent Shake of the Earthquake joined 
together, which ftopt the PafTage of the River, and for- 
ced it to feek another, which w^as a great way, in snd 
out amongft the Woods and Savana's ; for it was Nine 
Days before the Town had any Relief from it ; Info- 
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