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fbme as big as Hens Eggs, others five times as big. He men- 
tions, as an Accident ibmetimes happening to them in the 
Winter, that it has rain’d plentifully, and at Night frozen fo 
extremely, that the weight of the Icicles has broken the 
Limbs of the Trees,- and not* unfrequently fplit their Trunks. 
1 ho’ they have not thole Hurricanes to which the Caribbe 
lfiands are fubjeff ; yet they have had Whhlrrmds, or Gufls, 
drive along a particular narrow Tradt, for divers Miles to- 
gether, with a violence not to be oppofed by any thing on 
Earth ; that if their Towns* had flood in the way, they mufl 
undoubtedly have been deflroy’d. Of thefe, he fays, a thick 
dark, fmall Cloud has arofe, - with a Pillar of Light in it, 
of about 8 or to Foot Diameter, and pad along the Ground 
in a Track not wider than a Street, horribly tearing up 
Trees by the Roots, blowing them up in the Air like Fea- 
thers, and throwing up Stones of a great weight to a con- 
fiderable height in ihe Air, throwing down- all in its pa£ 
fage ; the Noife this Cloud made was fb great all the while, 
that the Noife of the Mifchiefs done by it, was thereby quite 
drown’d. 
The remainder of this Letter relates to (orae- very ancient 
Remains, at a Place call’d Anmuskeag, a lictle above the hi- 
deous Falls of Merimack River. There as a huge Rock in 
the midft of the Stream, on the Top of which are a great 
number of Pits, made exa&ly round, like Barrels or Hog- 
fheads of different Capacities, Tome fo large as to hold fe- 
veral Tuns; the Natives know nothing of the Time they 
were made ; but the Neighbouring Indians have been wont 
to hide their Provifions in them, in their Wars with the 
Maqua's ; affirming, God had cut them out for that ufe for 
them. They feem plainly to be artificial. 
In the next place, he gives an account of a ftrange In- 
feription found on a Rock, in thefe Words. At Taunton, 
l) the fide of a Tiding River , part in part cut of the River , there 
is a large Rock, on the perpendicular fide of which , next to the 
Stream^ are 7 or 8 Lines, ab-out 7 or % Foot long, , and about a 
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