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of fighfj and then caft n greae wayof amongft the Corn jat 
Jaft i£ pafs'd over the Town of Hatfield, to the great ter- 
four of the Inhabicants, filling the whole Air with the 
Thatch that it pluckVl off from fome of the Houfes ^ then 
touching upon a corner of the Church, it tore up feveral 
Sheets of Lead, androll'd them ftrangely together, foon af- 
ter which, itdiflblved and vanifhed without doing any fur- 
ther Mifchief. 
There was nothing more extraordinary in this, than in 
the other that I gave you a former account of, and by all 
the obfervations that I could make of both of them, I found 
that had they been at Sea, and joyn'd to the furface thereof, 
they would have carried a vaft quantity ot Water up into 
the Clouds, and the Tubes would then have become much 
more ftrong and opake than they werc> and have continued 
much longer. 
It is commonly faid that at Sea the Water collefts and 
bubbles up a foot or two high under thefe Spouts before 
that they be joyned : But the miftake lies in the pellucidity 
and fincnefs of thofe Pipes, which do moft certainly touch 
the furface of the Sea before that any confiderable motion 
be made in it, and that when the Pipe begins to fill with 
Water it then becomes opake and vifible. 
As for the reafon of their diffolving of themfelves after 
that they have drunk up a great quantity of Water, I take 
it to be by and through the great quantity of the Water 
that they have carried up, which muft needs thicken the 
Clouds, and impeade their motion, and by that means dif- 
folve the Pipes. 
1. De. 
