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In half an hour, or lefs, after the great thunder- 
clap, having occafion to go into the vault, upon his 
entrance, he immediately difcovered the noife of a 
running drip, and liquor flowing about the floor," 
which, upon further infpe&ion, he found proceeded 
from the laft-mentioned cooler, the bottles therein 
contained being broken to pieces, as if done by a mal- 
let, not fo much as one remaining intire of the whole 
quantity ; and the cooler being not very tight, the 
wine was running out from thence j but, by a quick 
application of fuch veflels as were at hand, the re- 
mainder was preferved, and, after clearing it from 
the glafs, was put into a fmall calk to recover, add- 
ing thereto about a one-third part of Port wine to fill 
up the veflel, fome of which I have tailed ; and a 
bottle, drawn from the faid calk, I herewith fend 
you- 
Mr. Lyon did not obferve, at the fame time, any 
kind of alteration in the faid wine made by ferment- 
ation, or otherwife ; only that it was vapid or flat : 
one bottle of the faid wine was afterwards found 
among the bottles of Port in the firll-mentioned 
cooler, which was not affeCted, but was fine, and in 
perfection ; nor was any other damage done in the 
vault, that he could difcover upon the Itrictelt in- 
quiry. 
Captain John Dickinfon, a gentleman in the neigh- 
bourhood, lhared half the calk of the faid wine, 
which had a flmilar management, was bottled off at 
the fame time, and had a lefs cool and friendly vault; 
yet not one bottle of this has hitherto been in any- 
wife damaged. 
I have 
