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malcula began to (how themfelves, and that in great 
numbers 5 and (oon after two forts of much fmalkr 
iAnimalcula. 
Jn my Letter of the 8th of Jan, !aft, I writ to you 
about the dreadful Stonm that had happen d the 8th of 
Decemb. before , and I told you then that the ftrong 
Winds had carried the Waves of the Sea over our Mea- 
dows and Orchards, from whence I prefaged a finitful 
year, but few people took notice of my predictions s 
however, having difcoilrs*d feveral per fons, that con- 
cerned themfelves in Tillage or Grazing, upon thatfubjedl:, 
they all affar'd me, that they had never known fuch a 
plentiful year for Graisj as alfo for Peas and Beans, as 
was thelaft Summer ^ and among others^ I enquired of a 
Gentleman, that does Fatten D am(l) Oy^tn every 
year, about the fame : Whofe anfwer was, That he had 
a piece of Ground on which he fed 26 Oxen, and that 
if he had turn'd 26 more into the fame Pafture, there 
would have been Grals enough for them \ and that he 
had never feen fo much Grafs before 5 and that the 
Oxen were exceeding fat. 
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