6% The U^atural H'tjlory 
by was called to their affiftance, who as unhappily as willing- 
ly defcending to them, alfo fuddenly fell down upon them, aad 
dyed : To whomjaftcr fome deliberation taken, another ytnimt^ 
down with a roap about his middle, but he fell from the Lad- 
der in juft the fame manner, and though prefently drawn up by 
the people above , yet was fcarcely recovered in an hour or 
more. 
53. And now again but lately, on the 16^^ Auguft lijd^, 
upon a buckets falling cafually into a well, on the fouth fide of 
the Tovpn^ about a furlong from the former, a woman calls her 
neighbor, a lufty ftrong man, to go down by a Ladder to fetch 
up her bucket, who altogether unmindful of the former acci- 
dent, foon granted (as it proved) her unhappy requeft ; for 
by that time he came half way down, he fell dead from the 
Ladder into the water : the woman amazed, calls another of 
her Neighbors^ a lufty young man of about eight and twenty, 
who haftily defcending to give his affiftance, miich about the 
fame place alfo fell from the Ladder, and dyed, without giving 
the leaft fign of his change, fo fuddenly mortal are the damps of 
this earth. 
34. Dr. Boat^'y in his Natural Hiftory Ireland^ gives ac- 
count of an accident that happened at Vublin^ in a well there fo 
very like ours^that they fcarcely differ in any circuraftance. And 
we have a relation in our Pbilofofhical Tranfa^ions p, of fuch kind 
of damps that happen'd in Coal-mines belonging to the Lord ' 
Sinclair in Scotland, Now though we muftnot conclude from 
hence, that here muft therefore needs be Coal ; yet, conjoyned 
with others I know hereabout, I take it not to be fo unlikely a 
fign^ but that of all others I know of in the County^ I guefs this 
may be the moft probable place. 
35. For though I think thofe poyfonous and killing fteams 
may indeed more immediatly have their rife from a Pyrites^ or 
Copera6jlone^ found here in great plenty where-ever they dig ; a 
piece whereof brought me by a friend from thence, upon taft, 
proved a Vitriol fo ftrong and virulent, that prefently from my 
mouth it foaffefted my ftomach, that I confefs for a while I was 
fearful of danger : yet, it being the common confent of Natu- 
ralifts^ that fuch Pyrites are nothing but the efflorefcence of Mine- 
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