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far didant from the fea as is Oxford, extremely rare. 
I therefore judged, that a diort defcription of it might 
not be altogether unacceptable to the Royal Society. 
I (hall only beg leave to add, that a mod terrible 
dorm of rain and hail followed it, which continued 
from a little pad 3 to near 5 o’clock, the next morn- 
ing j that we have had much of fuch dormy weather 
here, and in the neighbourhood of this city, ever 
tincej and that 
I am. 
With all podible confideration and edeem, 
Good Sir, 
Your mod obliged, 
and mod obedient, 
humble fervant. 
Chrift-Church, Oxon. 
Sept. 27, 1760. 
John Swinton. 
XIX. An 
