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extraordinary fluxes and refluxes of the tide at that 
time, and was informed, that, at the firft agitation, 
when the plough was furprized by the fea, the water 
muff have rifen about fix feet perpendicular. During 
my ftay, I obferved the fea flowing and retreating fe- 
veral times, and, by my watch, it was feven minutes 
flowing, (the water riling about a foot and half, or 
fomewhat more) and the like time nearly in retiring. 
About half hour pad: eleven, I was obliged to move 
homewards, and, as I palled by the brim of the 
water, obferved, that the fea advanced and retired, 
and was not fettled; but the alterations were then 
fmall, and fcarce perceptible. On the fame day, and 
time, (it being the beginning of the fifhery feafon) a 
feine-net was (hot for pilchards ; but, by the fudden 
furge of the fea, the net broke, and the fifhermen 
were glad to take in their net, without fifh. In the 
more weftern parts of this bay, the agitations were 
very apparent ; and, by the Papers, the like agitations 
were felt in the harbours of Falmouth, Fawy, and 
Plymouth. 
; Light- On the fame day, about eight o’clock P. M. the 
- nin g- wind at eaft, Farenheit’s thermometer at 64, the at- 
.mofphere continuing in the fame calm, fultry, and 
grumbling temperature, the fierceft lightning, ac- 
companied in the fame moment with a thunderclap, 
broke over Ludgvan church ; it came from the north- 
weft, and fell upon the fouthern pinnacle of the eaft- 
fide of the church-tower. The pinnacle was fifteen 
feet high from the battlements of the tower, and con- 
lifted of a pedeftal carved into fquare compartments.; 
a pyramid, or fpire, with knobs at the angles, and on 
rthe top a crofs, with a molded focket-ftone to fupport 
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