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LXXX. An Account of a remarkable Agita- 
tion of the Sea , July 28, 1761, and of 
two Flounder- Storms in Cornwall : I?i a 
Letter to the Rev. Thomas Birch, D . D . 
Secretary to the Royal Society , fro?n the 
Rev . William Borlafe, M. A. F. R. S . 
Reverend Sir Ludgvan, March 8, 1762. 
Read April i, /^\N Tuefday, the 28th of lad July; 
the day quite calm, the fky lowring 
and cloudy, thunder at times all the day, the tide 
in Mount’s-bay was considerably agitated. Between 
the towns of Penzance and Marazion, there is a 
flrand, or level of lands, on which there is good 
travelling, when the tide is out ; but when the tide 
is full, the fands are covered. At ten A. M. the 
driver of a plough, belonging to William Tregennin, 
laden with tin, for Penzance, coinage, driving, as 
ufual, on the then bare fands, found himfelf and the 
plough, on a fudden, furrounded by the fea. The 
horfes were frightened, and plunged, the oxen flood 
ftill, the driver and his boy could neither recoiled: 
how they Should help the cattle, or fecure them- 
felves : Several people Saw them at a diftance, but 
dared not to approach ; and, in a few minutes, when 
all was given up for loft, the fea retired, and left 
them, Safely to purfue their journey. I came to 
Ghandour, a Small village at the weftern extremity 
of thefe fands, about eleven, and found Several per- 
sons /landing on the fhore, intent upon the Several 
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