(. 76 %) 
tint of the Trees it bore. That this is not a bare con- 
jediure, may appear from the boyling up of the Water 
at firll: in the lefler Hole, and its ftanding in the bigger 
and lower. And if it fiiail be found that it was a 
very windy day whereon this accident happen’d, it 
Will much add to the probability of this Solution I 
An accident not unlike this lately happened in 1 
FUet’flreet^ London^ by the defcd: of the arched Roof of / 
a very deep Common-Sewer. The Earth gradually 
falling into the Sew-er, was carried away by it, fo as J 
not to obllrud the Water 3 and the continual tremour 
of the Ground, occafioned by the conftant palTing of ^ 
Carts and Coaches, by degrees (hook down the rarth, 
fo as CO leave a very great C vern, the Top wherqof 
at length grew fo very thin, that one day a weighty 
Cart having juft paft it, a great fpace of the favemenc ^ 
funk in, in the middle of the Street, not without hazard 
to a Coach then driving by. ] 
V. A ^eBification of the Motions of the five Satellites ^ 
of Saturn 5 with Jome accurate ObferVations of 
them, made and Communicated by the *^everend 
James Pound. R.S. Soc. 
I T is now above thirty Years fince that great Aftro- 
nomer Mr.CaJJini communicated to the World his 
difeovery of two new Satellites of Saturn, W’hich made 
their number Five ; and the account he gave of them to 
the Ropl Society, (of which he was a Member) is to be 
4 een in N°. 187, of thefe Tranfadions. Much about 
the fame time the excellent M. ChrifHan Huygens'ot !Zu- 
iichm, made the Society a prefent of the Glaftes of a 
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