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very perceptible motion : And then fliortly after the Spout 
or Canal brake in the middk, and di&ppeared by litrie 
and little, the boyling up, yea, the Pillar-like form ot 
the Sea- Water continuing ftill the laft, yea, for fomecon- 
fiderable time after the Spduc difappeared, and perhaps till 
the Spout apjxared ag^irij or' reformed it felf, wliich it 
commonly did in the fame place as before, breaking and 
forming it felf again fever^l times in a quarter ot an hour, ' 
or half an hours time. 
Th^ middle bne of the three, as I have faid, exceeded 
all the reft in Bignefs, Perpendicularity, Conftancy ot 
Form and Situition, as well as Duration y but at laft va- 
nifhed, as is above fet down/ 
I know not. Sir, if any has accompted ior this P/6<!^«^ 
mznon:, but I imagine it may befolved by Sucftion (: im- 
properly fo called) or rather Puliion, as in the application 
of a Cupping- glafs tO' the Flefh^ the> Air. being iirft voided 
by the kindled Flajc* . 
I hisve fubpyned the Figures of the jSpouts as . exaftly 
as rcould- 
> It was further obfervable (which I had almoft forgot) 
That the oblique Spouts pointed always from the Wind^ 
that is, that the Wind being at N- E. the oblique Spouts 
always pointed to the S. W» tho at the fame time and mo- 
ment there were others perpendicular^ which remained 
ftill fo, notwithftanding the Wind. 
Alfo that fuch as were curved had Tlill the Convex fide 
from the Wind, and the Concave towards it y that is, the 
Wind being at Ni E. the Concave was towards the N. Eo 
and the Convex towards the S.' W. 
It rained a great deal during the continuance of thefe 
Spouts, add after their total difappearance we had half 
an hours violent gale, of Wind from the N- E. witli very 
little Rain, thereafter the Weather cleared up^ . 
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