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III. A Letter of that curious Naturalifl A/r.Henry 
Barham, % S. S, to the ^uhlijJnr^ a %e~ 
latlon of a fiery Meteor feen hy him, in Jamaica, 
to ftrike into the Earth 5 with ^marks on the 
Weather, Earthquakes, See, of that Ifland. 
SIR, 
A ccording to your Requeft I have colleded what 
I can remember, relating to a Meteor I law in 
Jamaica about the Year 1700, as I was riding 
one Morning from my Habitation fituaced about Three 
Miles North- Weft from St.Jago de la Vega: I faw a Ball 
of Fire, appearing to me of the Bignefs of a Bomb, 
fwiftly falling down with a great Blaze. As 1 thought 
it fell into the Town ; but when I came within a quar- 
ter of a Mile of the Town, I faw many People gather’d 
together a little to the Southward in the Savanna, to 
whom I rode up, where they were admiring at the 
Ground’s being ftrangely broke and plough'd in by a 
Ball of Fire, which, as they faid, fell down there. I 
obferved there were many Holes in the Ground, one in 
the middle of the Bignefs of a Man’s Skull, and five or 
fix fmaller Holes round about it, of the Bignefs of a 
Man’s Fift, and fo deep ( efpecially the biggeft ) as 
not to be fathom’d by what long Switches or Sticks 
they had at hand^ I did not hear that any was fo cu- 
rious as to make any farther Search : It was obferv’d, 
that the green Grafs was perfedly burnt near the Holes, 
and a ftrong Smell of Sulphur remain’d thereabouts for 
a good while after. 
Note that we had a terrible rainy Night before, with 
much Lightning and great Thunder-Claps, which we 
havp 
