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One of them declared, that it would prove a fcourge 
(as lhe imagined it to refemble a whip or fcourge) to 
this nation ; and others, even lefs fuperditious, were 
druck with no fmall degree of aftonifhment at fo 
unufual a fight. The weather was mild, or rather 
warm, the whole day. The wind, during the con- 
tinuance of the phenomenon, and almoft ever fince, 
was W. S. W. though it did not then exceed a very 
gentle gale. 
When or where the diffolution of the Spout hap- 
pened, provided we admit of the foregoing fuppo- 
fition, I cannot pretend to fay ; not having received, 
from any perfon, the lead: information on that head. 
The weather for three months before was, with very 
little inter million, hot and exceeding dry, fuch as gene- 
rally precedes meteors of this kind *. As the phe- 
nomenon was feen, by the Reverend Dr. Neve, Fel- 
low of Corpus-Chridi College, at Middleton-Stoney, 
twelve miles from hence, and (as I was told by 
Samuel Wilmot, Efq;) at Sandford, N. W. of that 
village, a few miles farther from this place, at the 
very time that I obferved it, and attended by cir- 
cumlfances nearly the fame with thofe that occured 
to me ; it mud have been, as might eafily be de- 
mondrated, of a pretty confiderable height. 
Perhaps it would be difficult to find an account of 
a meteor refembling this in every particular, either in 
antient or modern hi dory. ’Tis certain, a fimilar 
one is not remembered, or recorded, ever to have 
been feen here. Such appearances at fea, on our 
coads, are very uncommon j but at land, efpecially fo 
* Philof, TranfaR. Vol. XXII. n. 270. p. 805. 
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