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Anno Dom. 
1666. The Small Pox at Bojlon. Seven flain by Light- 
ning, and divers Burnt: This Year also New-England had 
caft away, and taken 31 Veffels, and fome in 1667. 
1667. Mr. John Wilfon Paftor of Bojlon Dyed, aged 
79 Years. 
1670. At a place called Kenibunck, which is in the 
Province of Meync, a Colony belonging to the Heir of that 
Honourable Knight Sir Fcrdinando Gorges \ not far from 
the River fide, a piece of Clay Ground was thrown up by 
a Mineral vapour (as we fuppofed) over the tops of high 
Oaks that grew between it and the River, into the River, 
flopping the courfe thereof, and leaving a hole two Yards 
fquare, wherein were thoufands of [114] Clay Bullets as 
big as Mufquet Bullets, and pieces of Clay in fhape like 
the Barrel of a Mufquet. 1 
1 See Josselyn's Voyages, p. 204 and p. 277, where the " hole" is said to have 
been, not " two," but " forty, yards square:" and we are farther told that "the 
like accident fell out at Casco, one and twenty miles from it to the eastward, 
much about the same time; and fish, in some ponds in the countrey, thrown up 
dead upon the banks, — supposed likewise to be kill'd with mineral vapours." 
Hubbard (Hist. N.E., chap. 75) tells this, partly in the same words with the 
account in the Voyages, and adds, "All the whole town of Wells are witnesses 
of the truth of this relation; and many others have seen sundry of these clay 
pellets, which the inhabitants have shown to their neighbours of other towns." 
And compare also the following, at p. 1S9 of the Voyages: "In 1669, the pond 
that lyeth between Watertown and Cambridge cast its fish dead upon the shore ; 
forc't by a mineral vapour, as was conjectured." 
