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midfl: of mod of them, if not all; the force of their 
Fall argued thtm to fall from a great Height. Thefe 
are the Cifcumftanccs have yet occurr'd ; ntxt Week 
wh n I g ) to Snowdon^ I may chance to find the begin- 
ning of this Haii, at lead trace it as far as the Sea and 
periiaps you may hear further of it out of Xork fh'tre^ 
beyond Xork^ towards Burroughhrigg , anJ Rippon. 
What I take to be moft extraordinary in this Phenome- 
non is, that fuch a fort or Vapours fhould continue un- 
difperft for fo long a TracV, as above fixty Miles toge* 
ther, and in all the way of irs PafTage occafion lo extra- 
ordinary a Coagulation and Congelation of the watry 
Clouds, as to encreafe the Hailftones to fo vaft a Bulk in 
fo ihort a Space as that of their Fall. 
Tours^ &c. 
V. Fart of another Letter^ Dated Mzy t. gi- 
ing a larger Account of the fame Hail- 
Storm. 
BEcaufeyou will fiiortly hear a Report of a prodigious 
Hail-Storm, that fell jn our part of this Country 
on Thur/c/ay hQ.,hQmcQn Three and Four a Clock in the 
Afternoon, I will haftily hint fomething of the matter 
to you, left your telf and acquaintance fliould think it 
fabulous. ^ We had only the extreme Skirt of the Show- 
er here, and there fell not above a Hundred Hail-ftones 
in our Court, but they were much larger and harder 
than the old t ft of us had feen : A Gentlewoman fent 
for one into the Houfe, and found it by Meafure to be 
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