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threw the Ball twice as far as the fame Quantity c£ 
Powder taken out of the fame Barrel, before it was 
dried. 
IV. An Account of a Meteor feen near Holkam* 
in Norfolk, Aug. 1741* tranfmitted to 
the Royal Society by the Right Hon hld 
Thomas Lord Lovell, F. R. S. 
Read Nov. 4. r 1 Hcmas Savory, John Walker , and 
174*. others of Lord Lovell’s Plough- 
men, being at Plough about the Middle of Auguft 1741. 
on a fair Day, at Ten o’clock in the Morning, faw on 
a Heath about a Quarter of a Mile from them, a Wind 
like a Whirlwind, come gradually towards them, iii 
a ftrait Line from Eaft to Weft. It palled through the 
Field where they were at Plough, tore up the Stubble 
in the ploughed Ground, and' alfo the Grafs befides 
the fame, for Two Miles in Length, and Thirty Yards 
in Breadth. When it came to fomc Clofes at the Top 
of a rifing Ground called Ferry bnjh-Clofes, Fhilip 
Henning , and others, who were houghing Turneps , 
faw it appear like a great Flafh or Ball of Fire. After 
having feen the Wind come into the Clofes, Robert 
May was in a Cottage where he lives by a Road-iide, 
at the Bottom of the Park, about a Furlong down-hill 
from the Clofe, when one of his Children about Six 
Years old, who was playing at the Door, cried out. 
That Ferrybufh- Clofes were on Fire 5 on which he went 
out to look, but faw no Fire, only a terrible Smoakj 
and heard fuch a Noife as Fire makes when a Barn is 
burning. 
