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young Trees, which it made^bend like Hafel Wands, in a 
Circular Motion 5 then going forward to a great Barn, it did 
in a minute tv/itch off all the Thatch, andiill the whole Air 
therewith. Coming to a very great Oak Tree, it made it 
bend like the aforegoing, and broke one of the greateft and 
ftrongeft Branches thereof, that would not yield to its fury, 
and twifting it about, flung it a very confiderable diftance 
off. Then coming to the place where I ftood, even within 
300 yards of me, I beheld with great fatisfadion its odd 
Phoenomenon, and found that it proceeded from nothing 
at ali but a Giration of the Clouds, by contrary Winds 
meeting in a Point or Center, and then and there where 
the Greateft Condenfation and Gravitation .was, falling 
down into a Pipe or Great Tube ( fomewhat like the 
Cochlea Archimedis ') and that in its V/orking; or Whirling 
Motion either fucks up Water, or Deftroys Ships, &c. ha- 
ving traveird about a quarter of a mile farther, it then Dif- 
folved by the Prevalency of the Wind that came out of 
theEaft- 
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