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down, ftill did from beginning Co end: Or elfe it points 
ed to this Column o£ Water, at fome diftatice, either in 
a perpendicular or oblique Line, a3 did the other two 
lelfen 
There were three or four Spouts more, which appeared 
at the fame time in the fame quarter of the Heavens, but 
neither for bulk or duration like to thefe three s Thofe 
appeared or difappeared (everal times^ during the Conti- 
nuance of thefe three aforefaid. 
It was hardly diftinguilhable whether the Sword -like 
Spout fell firft down from the Cloud, or the Pillar of ^Va- 
ter rofe firft frara the Sea,- both appearing oppofite to one 
another all of the fudden, as in the twinkling of an Eye. 
Only 1 obferved of one, that the Water boyled up from 
die Sea to a great height, without the ieaft appearance of 
a Spout pointing to it either perpendicularly or oblique- 
ly, and here the Water of the Sea never came together in 
the form of a Pillar or a Column, but didliy up fcattered- 
ly, the Sea being in a boyling rage round the place. Th€ 
Wind being then N. E. the faid boyling advanced tov/ards 
the S. W. as a flitting or moving Bufh upon thefurfaceof 
the Sea, and at laft ceafed. This proves that the boyling 
or flying up of the Water of the Sea may begin before the 
Spout from the Cloud appears to us : and indeed if there 
be any fmail matter of priority betwixt thefe two appear- 
ances, the boyling or throwing up of the Sea- Water has 
it : Which begins firft to boyl, and then frames it felf 
into a Pillar of Water, efpecially on the lower part 
thereof/ 
It was obfervable of all of them, but more perceptible 
of the great one, that towards the end it began to appear 
like a hollow Canal, only black in the borders, but white 
in the middle ^ and tho at firft it M^as altogether black and 
. opaque, yet no one could very diftin&Iy perceive the Sea 
Warcr to fly up aloogft the middle oi this Canal, as 
■Smoak up a Chimney, and that with great fwiftnefs, and 
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