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VIII. Some Account of the Sinking down of 
a Piece of Ground , at Horfeford, in Nor- 
folk ; communicated by Mr. Arderon, of 
Norwich, to Mr. Henry Baker, F. R. S. 
Read Nov. >VTN the Night-time, between the 24th 
I/45 ' j| and 25th of June laft paflya violent 
Storm of Thunder and Lightning happened at the 
City of Norwich , and the Places adjacent; tho’ at 
the City of Norwich it feemed extraordinary only 
for the Loudnefs of its Claps, and the Length of 
feveral of the Flafhes; fome whereof continued near 
half a Minute, and were fo extremely bright, that 
they caufed fome thin Deal Shutters to the Windows of 
my Bed-Room (which then happened to be un- 
painted) to appear almoft quite tranfparent. 
But at Horfeford , a fmall Country Village, about 
four Miles North-weft of this City, a remarkable 
Phenomenon 
fome for Seed, he opened one of the Pods, and was furprifed to fee 
one blue Pea at the End next the Stalk, with fix white Peafe : But 
after having examined feveral other Shells very carefully, he found 
a great Variety 01 Intermixtures of the white and blue Peafe in 
the fame Shells ; fometimes one white (or blue) only at one End, 
Sometimes at each End ; fometimes two white (or blue) with one of 
the other Colour interchangeably ; and thus the whole Parcel that was 
rubbed out for Seed was intermixt white and blue. The next Year, 
he fays, not having Plotts of white and blue Peafe Handing near 
one another, he did not find any fuch Mixture in the feveral Par- 
cels then faved for Seed. But it is pity he did not pick out a 
fufficient Number of the blue Peafe from among the white, and 
fow them by themfelves, in order to fee what colour’d Peafe this 
mixt Breed would have produced* 
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