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Hinge that goes into it, which was (hiver’d inPkces. 
Near the Sheep that was wounded, the Ground was 
tore up near two lards round. It was very* furpri- 
zing, that the Man’s Body was not beat to Pieces, or 
Bones broke at lead. Had Statins obferv’d a human 
Tabernacle withdanding a Shock fo terrible, when 
the very Stones, lodg’d in the Ground, gave Way, he 
would, no doubt, have put him upon a Level with 
Capaneus ; 
_ ■ — toto Jove fnlmen adacl um 
Corripnit : privne fngere in mibila crijl a 
E t clypei niger umbo cadit \ jamq } omnia lucent 
Membra viri. 
Exuiturq : , animus • paitlum fi tardius artus 
potuit Julmen meruifj'e fecundwn . 
To make a grofs Edimate of the Force, I took a Cohorn 
charg’d with three Quarters of a Pound of very vood 
Powder, wadded with thick Paper, and fired it againd 
a Stone of the fame Dimenfions, but not fo hard 
which it {batter’d to Pieces at half an Inch Di’ 
nance : But, in the other Blow, we have above tre- 
ble the EfFed, without any difcoverable Particles at 
all ; and yet it feems to fly like (mail Shot • pierces 
only here and there, and leaves a good many Places 
quite untouch’d, as is evident from the Hat which I 
have by me. To confirm this, James Mar fb al of this 
Town a fibres me, that in the Middle of the fame 
Storm, he received a Blow upon his Hat, which rat- 
tled like Shot through the Branches of a Tree: It 
bear in the Crown a little without penetrating it • 
He dagger’d and was giddy for two Days afterward* 
Two ot his Sons were, at the fame Infiant, both 
knock d down to the Ground, and dunn’d a little but 
prefently came to themfelves, and have no Wound • 
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