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IV, ^art of a Letter from the ^yerend Mr Abraham 
de la Pryme, F. ^ S. to the Tuhlijhery concerning 
a Spout ohfer^ed him in Yorkfiiire. 
Thorn, July 29. 1702. 
HAving obferved in the Tranfaftions for Jamary laft, 
Mr Stewart's Ingenious Accounc of fome Spouts t^at 
he beheld in the DfUditerranean Sea 5 it brought into 
my mind the memory of one that I faw, and was very near 
in this Country fome years ago, which having then com- 
mitted to Paper, I (hall now prefent you with the relation 
of. 
On the 15th of Aug. 1687. about two in the afternoon, 
appeared a Spout in the Air, in the Parifli of Hatfield 5 up- 
on the noife of which I immediately ran to the view there- 
of, and found it about a mile off, coming direftly to the 
place where I was 3 upon which I took my Profpeftive 
Glaffes, and made the beft.and niceft Obfervations thereon 
that I could; 
The Seafon was very dry, the Weather extremQ hat, and^ 
the Air very Cloudy, the Wind aloft and pretty flrong 5 
and ( that which is moft obfervable and moft material) 
blowing out of feveral quarters at thefam.e time, and filling 
the Air hereabouts wi^h mighty thick and black Clouds, 
layer upon layer ^ the Wind thus blowing foon created a 
great J^r/ex, Giration, and Whirling amongft the Clouds, 
the Center of which ever now and then dropt down in the 
ihape of a thick long Black Pipe, commonly calFd a Spout 3 
in which I could plainly and moft diftinftly behold a Moti- 
on, like that of a Screw, continually drawing upwards, 
and Screwing up (as it vi^ere) whatever it touched. In its 
progrefs it moved flowly over a Hedge Row and Grove of 
young 
