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ed greatly ^ fo that the Wounds are reckoned by the 
Woman that ufed to drefs them, to be Thirty at leaft 
between the Mother and Children: only one Girl about 
ten years old, or thereabouts, that ftood at a Diftance 
next the Door efcaped, having her Cloaths only (indged, 
and no Hurt done her. I had almofl: forgot to mention 
the feveral Splinters of Bones taken out in drefling 
their Wounds, that I could not get. It is worth ob» 
ferving alfo, that they did fmell fo flrong of the Sul- 
phur and bituminous Matter for fome Days, that one 
could hardly go near them. They are now, by the 
Goodnefs of God blefling the Means ufed for their Re- 
covery^ free from any grievous Pain to complain of ^ 
fo that’ they go about. This is all the Account I can 
give you, huddled up in fome Haft, which may ferve 
till you come yourfelf and take a more exa<Et Survey. 
What Conclufion to draw from hence I know not, 
tho* fome are very forward to pronounce that it was 
God’s Judgment upon them ; but as the Ways of Di- 
vine Providence* are unfearchable, ^ho caufes it to 
rain upon the juj and the unjuj^^ I think People 
ought not dive too far into thofe infcrutable Arcana’s j 
but only pray to God to preferve us evermore, and to 
avert fuch heavy Judgments our Sins map jiifily de— 
ferve^ hy fuch or like terrible Vifitations. 
This Account was fent me by Mr. Jenlin Jenkins > 
a Clero'yman, who lives in that Neighbourhood . A- • 
bout half a Year after I was that Way,, and viewed 
the Breach made in the Houfe, and the Wounds which r 
the Woman and her Children had received by the 
Stones lodged in their Bodies, fome of which. were not 
then healed. The Woman then gave me the little 
Piece of a Stone, wrappM up in the brown Paper, which 
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