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fubterraBeous waters ate at the loweft. They fancy, it proceeds 
from the multitude of Red Trifoil-florvers ^ by them called 
'Bonej'fuckles^ which with the Umeftone Meadows in the 
J^eakedo much abound. Sr. W. Fettfs duplicate proportion 
-t See this Difcourfe of f might perhaps render this fcent fenfible 
this Sub)ea, printed by at a great diftancc , efpecially in a narrow 
Ur, M.rtw, 1674. ^ Cavern, but fcarcely intolerable, or as they 
find it, malignant. 
The third is tbeftrangefl:and«iofl Pellilential of any, if all be 
true which is faid concerning it* Thofe who pretend to ha>^ 
feenitCfor itis vifible) defcribe it thus ; In the higheftpart of 
the roof of thofe paffages, which branch out from the main 
Grove, they often fee a round thing banging, about the bignefs of 
' a Foot-ball, covered with a skin of the thicknefi and colour of a 
Cobweb : This, they fay, if by any accident, as the fplinter of 
^ a Stone, or the like, it be broken, immediately difperfeth it felf, 
and fuffocates all the company. Therefore to prevent cafualties, 
as foonas they have efpied ir, they fay, they have a way, by the 
help of a ftick and a long roap of breaking it at a diftance ; which 
done, they purifie the place well by fire before they dare enter ic 
again* I dare not avouch the trurh of this ftory in all its circum- 
ftances, becaufe the proof of it feems impoflible, fince chey fay, 
it kills all that are likely to bear witnefs to all the particulars ; 
Neither dare I deny, but fuch a thing may have beenfeen hanging 
on the roof , fince I have heard many affirm it. Perhaps the ge- 
neral Tradition they haveamongfi them, hath made them afcribc 
all ftrange and furprifing effefts unto this caufe. They are not 
wMthoutareafonforit, which is not altogether irrational, if the 
niarrer of fadl be true ; for they fay^ the fleam which arifes from 
their bodies and the candles, afcends unto the higheft part of the 
Vault, and there condenfeth, and in time hath a filme grows round 
-about it, and at length corrupting becomes peflilcntial ; Thus 
have I heard many of our under- ground Thiiofophers difcourfe. 
The fourth which they alfo call a Damp (although how^pro- 
perly, I will not now argue)is that vapour, which being touched 
by their Candle prefently takes fire and givinga crack like a Gun 
produceth the like effeds, or rather thofe of Lightning. A Fel- 
low, they commonly call Dobby Leeeh^ is at this day a fad exam- 
ple of the force of one of thofe blafts inHajleberg-hills^ having 
his 
