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Mrs. Provoft fays, that the flalh or fire feemed to 
be as large as a fmall pewter plate, and palled clear 
through the entry (the doors being open) directed to 
the northward. 
On the oppofite fide of the fireet, and fomewhat 
oblique towards the north-eaft, at the diftance of about 
20 yards, Mr. Ambrofe Lyon, fail-maker, had, at 
the fame time, about fix dozen of bottles of Port wine 
broken to pieces. 
The front of Mr. Lyon’s houfe has nearly a fouth- 
weft afpeft: among other conveniences under-ground 
is a fubftantial arched brick vault, and capacious for 
a private houfe ; it is quite clofe, having no light or 
opening into it, but at the door, which faces the 
fouth, and is always kept locked. — On the weflern 
fide of this vault were repofited feveral calks of wine, 
mod of them iron-bound ; alfo feveral dozens of rum 
behind them upon the floor. On the northern end 
was a circular tub or cooler, iron-bound with three 
hoops, containing Port wine in bottles. About ten feet 
from hence, on the eaflern fide, nearer the door, and 
diredtly oppofite thereto, flood by itfelf another large 
circular cooler, 32 inches diameter, and 12 inches 
deep, bound alfo with three iron hoops, containing 
about fix dozen of Portugal wine, called Barabarha , 
the remainder of a larger quantity, which he had kept 
in calk for more than two years before it was bottled, 
in which laft ftate it had been for more than three 
months, and all proper care taken of it ; for he is 
very curious in thefe things. Thefe bottles were in- 
clined upon their fides, for their better prefer vation, 
as were all the others containing wine j and this tub 
was fixed upon Ikids (pieces of timber) about fix 
inches thick. 
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