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the operation, has been capable of retaining her 
urine, and is now perfe&ly well. 
The operation was performed on the 7th inftant. 
Hatton- Garden, May 28, 
1752. 
LXXX. An Account of a Water-Spout, rais'd 
off the Land , in Deeping-Fen, Lincoln- 
shire ; by the Rev . Mr. benjamin Ray, of 
Cowbit near Spalding in that County ; 
communicated to the Society at Spalding, on 
the 7 of May 1752, by Maurice Johnfon, 
e/t, a?td by him to the Royal Society. 
Read^May z8, T'X the year 1772, on the 7 of May, a 
I/5Z ' X ver y uncommon phasnomenon appear’d 
about 7 in the evening, in Deeping-Fen, which, from 
its effects, I take to be a water-fpout, broken from 
the clouds ; nor can it admit, in my opinion, of any 
other folution, 
A watry fubftance, as it feemed to me, was feen 
moving upon the lurface of the earth and water, in 
Deeping-Fen. It marched along with fuch violence 
and rapidity, that it carried every thing before it; 
fuch as grafs, ftraw, and Hubble ; and in its going 
over the country bank, it raifed the duft to a great 
height; and when it arrived in the wafli, in the 
midft of the water, and juft over againft where I 
live, then it was, that I ftrft faw it; and here it was, 
that it ftood ftill for fome minutes. How dreadful 
was 
