( 5 «4 ) 
which I examined were very much dilated, and Teemed 
to be charged with as much Wind as Blood. 
If there is any thing I have omitted, or have been too 
tedious in, I hope you will be pleafed to excufe me, be- 
ing in Tome confinement for want of time 5 which I wilt 
endeavour to mend at leifure. I am 
Tour obliged 
Humble Servant* 
W. COWPER. 
VIII. A Letter from A ir. Ralph Thoresby, F. 5; 
to Dr. Hans Sloane, R.. S. Seer. Giving an Ac- 
count of the Damage done by a Storm of Half 
which happen d. ‘hear Rotherham in Yorkfhire, 
an June 7. 171 1 . 
Leeder , Nov. 3, }ji,u 
Honoured Sir * 
B Eing not long ago- at Wentworth-Woodhoitfe-, and ' 
other Places near Rotherham , where very confider- 
able Damage was done by a Storm, I enquired after the 
nioft remarkable Particulars 5 which having receiv’d from 
fo fure Hands as the Parties immediately concern'd* will 
not, 1 prefume, be unacceptable to you* 
The. Storm of Hail, accompanied with very terrible 
Thunder and Lightning, happened upon the yth of June 
lail: It begun about Rotherham, (a little beyond which 
was fomswhat of a Hurricane) where it- burnt a noted 
a> £ : i\ Xrefc. 
