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Ocean, having nc Land over againft it any where. This 
is all I can now tell you of it, and from this imperfedt 
• Defcripcion you may form what Queries you think fit. 
I dare not promife you that I fhall go to fee it this Sum* 
mer (it being full bevenfcore Miles off") fho' I have a 
great Temptation as well as Defire fo to do ; but if I 
do not, I can get your Queries wel anfwered upon the 
place. 
V, The Relation of a Storm of Thunder, Light- 
ning and Hail at Oundlc in Northam* 
ptonfhire on the aoth of March i6$l. By 
Mr. W. ft. 
THE Day on which the Storm happened was the 
zotb of March ; tlie Day was ftorrny, as the 
Weather had been fome^tHne before; but about eight at 
Night there" arofe a very violent Guft of VVind, at 
South-Weft, which lafted an hour and half, till the Thun- 
der-clap was over, during which time it rained very fad. 
A qua- of an hour, or thereabouts, after Nine, fell a 
mighty Storm of Hail intermixed with Rain, which lay 
very white, and fbme depth on the grour d, and to me 
appeared to have Snow mixed with it. During that 
Storm happened the Lightnings, which were but two 
Flaflies, but very violent and ftrange ; it had hailed near, 
a quarter of an hour before the Lightning ; it was ex- 
traordinary blew, and of a Sulphureous Smell. It 
feemed to fland flill in theHoufe feme confiderable time, 
and was fo great, that a Gentleman who fat below flairs, 
thought that the Houfe had been on Fire above, and 
