'JftExtrAii of a Letser of ]\Ay 2S, iGj^.byMr. Li{icT from 
York to the Publijher ; contAining fome Obfervations about 
Damps, together with fome Relations concerning odd. Worms vo- 
mtedby ChildrenySic. 
SIR, 
I Shall Tranfcribe for you a Letter, I bad very lately from M:« 
Je([of\ which isas followeth : 
As to what concerneth Damps ^ I ftall give you a brief ac- 
count of what is generally faid and believed. If you find any 
thing worth a further enquiry, if you pleafe ro fend your Que- 
ries, I will endeavour to get the befl: information I can. There 
are four forts common in thefe parts. > 
Thefirftis the Ordinary Sort ^ of which I need not fay muchj 
being known every where 5 the external figns of its approach* 
are the Candles burning orbicular, and the flames leffening by 
degrees until it quite extinguifli j the internal,fliorrntfs of breath. 
I never heard of any great inconvenieoGe,which any one fiiffer'd 
by it, who efcaped fwooning. Thofe that fwoonaway, and ef- 
cape an abfolutefuffocation, are at their firft recovery tormented 
with violent Convulfions, the pain whereof, when they begin to 
recover their fenfes, caufeth them to roar exceedingly. The or- 
dinary remedy is todiga hole in the earth, and lay ihein on thtir 
bellies, with their mouths in it 5 if that fail, they tun them fu ] of 
good Ale ; but if thar fail, they conclude them defperate. I have 
known fome, who have been recovered after this manner (when 
fome of their Companions at the fame rime have died) that told 
me,they found themfelves very well within a little whileafcer ihty 
had recovered their fenfes, and never af.er found themfelves tl e 
worfe for ic« 
They call the fecond fort iht Feafe-hUom Damp, becaufe, as 
they fay, it fmells like Peafe-bloom. They tell me, it alwayes 
comes in rhe Summertime, and thofe Groves are not free, which' 
are never troubled wirh any other fort of Damps. I never 
heard that it was mortal, the fcent perhaps freeing them from the 
danger of a furprife : B^it by reafori of it, many good Groves 
lie idle at the beft and mod profitable time of the year, when the^ 
fubterra«. 
