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dent of fo fhort duration, till the reports of the agi- 
tation feen in the waters of feveral ponds brought it 
again into my memory. Whereupon, confulting my 
memorandum-book, I found, by the work I was 
then doing, that the day, on which this happened, 
was the firft of November. I am, 
Your mod; obedient fervant, 
Henry Mills. 
IX. 
An Account of the Agitation of the JVater in Peer- 
led Pool, near Old-Street, London. By Thomas 
Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S, 
Read Dec. ' 8 , X T P O N the reports, which I had re- 
*755- ceived from feveral gentlemen, 
that the agitation of the waters obferved in many 
parts of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, (^c. 
on Saturday November i, lyff, had been likewife 
taken notice of in Peerlefs-Pool, near Old-dreet 
road, being curious to have as authentic and circum- 
Ilantial an account as poffible of a fa 6 t, which I had 
not heard to have been remarked in any other part 
of London, or its fuburbs, I went thither on Saturday 
December 6 , 17 and took down the following 
particulars relating to it, from the mouth of one of 
the two waiters there, who were eye-witnelTes of it.. 
He being engaged between the hours of ten and 
eleven in the morning, with his fellow-waiter, in 
fome bufmefs near the wall incloling the ground, 
which 
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