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'deep, and five Inches Diameter, which fhews the 
Force of the Blow. I have feen an Iron Ball fhot out 
of a Mortar almoll perpendicular, which, upon a like 
gravelly Soil, made not a greater Imprefiion. About 
the Time this iVccident happen’d, a Tradefman of the 
fame Town obferved a Sort of Fire-ball, as large as a 
Man’s Head, to burfl in four Pieces near the Church. 
The Storm began here at i h 30', and lafted, with inter- 
mifiions, to 2 h 3c',and we faw the Lightning towards 
Mesbury all the Evening. Two Perfons at Aynho 
were a little hurt at the fame Time, and one of them 
ftruck down to the Ground, and fays, he thought he 
was felied with a Beetle. I myfelf heard the Hifs of 
a Ball of Fire, almofi as big as the Moon, which flew 
over my Garden, from S. E. to N. IV. 
1 Thought I had been impertinently circumftantial 
in the Account of the late Storm ; but there (till 
remains a Particular or two to complete it. I order’d 
Nephew, a Student of Merton a pretty good 
Philofopher, to fearch the Holes made by the Blalt, 
which the Owner of the Ground faid, his Confcience 
permitted him not to do. He prevailed upon him, 
at lafl with Money, Ale, and other rural Argu- 
ments ’to trace the Path-way of it. Both the Holes, 
at firfl, were almofi perpendicular for half a Yard, 
and after that grew narrower j in both of them, the 
Matter divided into two Parts, and form d horizontal 
Cavities about three Inches Diameter. In one he 
found a very hard glazed Stone, of about 10 Inches 
long, 6 wide, and 4 in Thicknefs, crack d in two: 
Others it could not pierce, but was turned here and 
there out of its Courfe, but left not the leaft Black- 
nefs, or other Difcolouring any where. As to the 
Knife, it was not the Blade, but the Haft, aI ^^he 
