Town : The Waves came rolling down, like long Swarths 
of Grafs, one upon another, to ufe the Metaphor of the 
Relater, who had never feen the Sea. Several Houfes 
were utterly ruin’d, and others wreckt up to the Cham- 
ber Windows ; one particularly fo covered, that a great 
piece of the Rock was left upon the top of the Chimney. 
Thefe things my Neighbour was an Eye-Wirnefs of, and 
had many a weary day in clearing fome part of his Land. 
His Houfe was, for fome time, full of Neighbours, who 
were harbourlefs by this fudden Accident 
Leeds, Augufi 20, 1705. 
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V. ObferVations of the Solar Eclipfe, May x w if 0 6 , 
At the G(pyal ObferVatory at Greenwich, &c. com* 
mmkated by the Reverend Mr John Flamfted, 
Math. %. & F. ^ S. 
T He Morning was Cloudy and Moift till about eight 
a clock, when the Clouds began to break, and we 
had fometimcs a fight of the Sun through the fpaces be- 
twixt them. A Sevenfoot Telefcope was fitted up with 
a Scene to receive the Species of the Sun caft through if, 
and on which it was about feven inches diameter, di- 
vided into digits by fix concentrick Circles.. But Clouds 
coming, the Sun frequently rendred this way of obferving 
inconvenient, and therefore laying afide the Apparatus 
of the Scene, I viewed him through the fame Telefcope 
with Smoaked Glaffes, to fave my Eyes, and Noted; 
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13 T 170*5. 
