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C. An Account of an extraordinary Storm 
of Hail in Virginia. By Francis Fauquier, 
Ffq\ Lieutenant Governor of Virginia,. 
and F. R. S. Communicated by William 
Fauquier, Ffq\ F. R. S, 
To the Rev. Tho. Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S. 
S I R, 
Read Nov. 9, N a letter I received from my brother, 
‘75 8 - ^ the lieutenant governor of Virginia, 
he gives an account of a very remarkable ftorm of 
hail ; which, if you think it worth communicating 
to the Society, is very much at their fervice. 
It happened on Sunday the pth of July, about 
four o’ clock in the afternoon, and was preceded by 
fome thunder and lightning. It was a fmall cloud, 
that did not feem to threaten much before its break- 
ing, and did not extend a full mile in breadth. It 
palled over the middle of the town of Williamlburgh, 
and the fkirts of the town had but little of it. Its 
courfe was from N. by W. to S. by E. The hal- 
ftones, or rather pieces of ice, were moft of them 
of an oblong fquare form ; many of them an inch 
and half long, and about three fourths of an inch 
wide and deep ; and from one fide of moft of them 
there proceeded {harp fpikes, protuberant at leaft 
half an inch. He fays he cooled his wine, and froze 
t ream, with lome of them the next day ; and they 
were not totally diffolved when lie went to bed oil 
Monday 
