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^ JieUth» ef jome pange phaeooniena', icimpdnkd mth ■mtf 
^ chlevous eff'eks in a, Qle^mrk in Flint- fliire 5 fent March 3 u 
1611 > to the Reverend and eminentljf Learned Dr, Bd^ihurtt^ 
Dean of Bath and Wells, by an Ingenious Gentleman^ Mr* 
Roger Moflyn, of the Inner temple^ who^ at the [atd Dolor s 
reque/l, obtained it from his Fathers Stevpard^ and Overfeer of 
his Cole-works , who was ufon the place when the thing was 
done 5 the fame ^Mr, Moflyo being alfo affured of it from hk 
Father^ .Sr.Roger Moflyn, Lord of the Manmr^ and feveral 
others, whowere Eye-witnejfes. 
THe Cole-work at Mojljn \n Flint /hire Iks in a large par- 
cel of Wood-land, that from the Countries fide which 
lies to the South hath a great fall to the Sea-fide, which is direft 
North ; The dipping or fallof the feveral Rocks or Quarries 
of Scone that are above the Cole , and confequently of the Cole 
lying uoder them, doth partly crofs the fall of the ground, To 
that the dipping of it falls within a point or lefs of dueEaff, 
which is Che caufcjthat the Pits that are funk at the Sea-fide in 
the fame level with the full Sea-mark,are not fhorc of the depth 
of theothersthat areupofj the higher ground , above fifteen or 
fixteeoyards5 fo that they lie fome fixty , fome fifty, and ^hc 
ebbeft forty yards under the level of the Sea. This above- 
mentioned work is upon, a Cole of five yards in thicknefs, and 
hath been begun upon,about fix or eight and thirty years ago t 
When it wasfirft found^ic wasextreamfullof Water , fo that ic 
could not be wrought down to the bottom of the Cole , but a 
Witchet or Cave was driven out in the middle of it upon a 
level for gaining of room to w'ork,and drawing down the Spring 
of water that lies in the Cole to the Eye of the pit;in driving of 
which Witchet, after they had gone a confiderable way under 
ground, and werefcanted of mud^ the Fire-damp did by little 
and little begin to breed, and to appear in crevifTes and flitsof 
the Cole , where water had Iain before the openingof the Cole 
withafmall blewifh flame working and moving continually, but 
not out of its firfl: feal, unlefs the Workmen came and held their 
Candle to it, and then, being weak the blaze of the Candle 
would drive it, with a fudden fizz, away to another Crevefs^ 
w^here it w^uld foon after appear blazing and moving as former- 
ly. Thi$ was the firft kn^)wledge of it in ihis work, which the 
Workmen made but a fporr of^ and partly neglefted it till it 
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