niiffion, and this without Thunder continued till the nejct 
morning s the Flafhesof Lightning fometimes reprefenting 
the fudden appearance of a Star, and at other times of a 
? Flaming Sword, and again of a- Silver Cord ftretched a 
long the Clouds, or as the irregular rents of a Vyal from 
top to bottom. 
About 8 next morniag we hadThundring, with a con- 
tinuation of Lightning of the kind and appearance above- 
mentioned*, all from the N. E. or thereby. 
About 9 the fame morning, tell down from the Clouds 
f which lookt dffmally black, lowring, and as it were hea- 
vy with Rain) in thefaidN. E, quarter, three Waterfpouts 
fas commonly called J that in the middle being the greateft 
leem'd fo big as theMaft of a Ship, and I judged it to be 
atleaft a League and "a half diftant from us^ fo that in it 
felf no doubt it was bigger than three Mafts. The other 
two vyere not by half fo big. All of them black, as the 
Cloud from whence they fell. All of them fmooth, with- 
out any knot or irregularity 3 only at firft falling, fomc 
fell perpendicularly down, and fome obliquely, and all of 
them fmaller at the lower end than above, giving the re- 
prefentation of a Sword ^ fometimes alfo one of *em would 
bow it felf, and again become ftrait, and alfo fometimesi 
became fmaller, and again increafed its bulk 5 fometimes 
it would difappear^ * and imfnediately fall down again 5 
fometimes it became extenuated to the fmallnefs of a Rope, - 
and again became grofs as before. 
There was always a great boy ling and flying up of the 
Water of the Sea, as in a Jette d' ean, or Water-work 5 
or this rifing of the Water had the appearance of a fmoak- 
ing Chimney in a calm day. Some yards above the fur- 
face of the Sea the Water flood as a Column or Pillar 
and then fpread it felf, arid was diffipated as fmoak:. And 
the Sword- like Spout from the Clouds either came down 
to the very middle of this Pillar, and as it had been joyn- 
vcd with it, ^s the greateft, which fell .perpendicularly 
down, 
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