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partieles millions of times bigger than tiiemfelves, and 
deftroy and diffolve thofe moft curious Bodies that are fo 
fearfully and fo wonderfully made. Neitho* will 1 con- 
jefture vAiy they ftiould lye fo long, commonly 3 weeks 
or a month, and oftentimes much longer, before that they 
begin to ftir ^ why Water, or Beer, or any Cold Liquid 
is againft them, &c. becaufe that fuch things cannioc 
certainly be known but by great Nicenefs, and repeated 
Labour and tafptftion. Tis pity that the mofl: Noble of 
Creatures lyes at the Mercy of the moft Ignoble of Parti- 
cles 'y and moft wonderful that a few Atoms ftiould be 
able to deftroy a whole Worlds millions of times bigger 
than themfelves. 
R.oger Mowbray, mention'd in my iaft Letter, did not 
live in 1^90, as I writ by miftake, but in i ioo ^ fo that 
what I faid about fome Reliques of old Forefts of Fir 
then ftanding in thefe Levels, is more obfervable than I 
thought of. 
V. Fart 0) a Letter from Mr AlexVStuarc, (aFhy 
cian} to the Fubliiher^ cQ7icerning fome S font she 
obfervecf in the Mediterranean. 
SIR, 
I Prefume to give you the following Accompt of fume 
Waterfpouts (as they are commonly called) which I 
faw lately in the Meditteranean Sea, 
The27thof A^ignftjjoi. being upon theCoaft oiBarba- 
rj, to rheNorch ward of the Town of B^?;//2,upwards of 10 
Leagues diftance at Sea, about 7 a Clock atmghr, fliorcly 
after Sun-fetting appeared inhe N. E. (which was direftly 
up the Gulf of Lyo/^/s from us) great and continued Fla(l](S 
of Lishtnins one after another, without hai-dly .^ny ina r- 
miiiion, 
