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nute. Thefe, Sir, are the particulars of the account 
I have received, the truth of which may be de- 
pended on ; and if the communication anfwers your 
expectation, I fhall be extremely glad of it. I am, 
S I R, 
J 
Your moft humble fervant, 
Richard Phillips. 
LETTER XII. 
An Account of the fame. Communicated by the Rev. 
John Blair, LL.D. F. R. S. 
Read Dec. 18. 
‘ 755 - 
O N Saturday, November l, 1 75-5, at 
Earley - Court, near Reading in 
Berkfhire, in a fmall fifh-pond near the houfe of 
Edward Pauncefort Efq; the water was obferved 
about eleven a clock in the forenoon to be in a 
ftrong agitation, like that of the tide coming in. The 
firft motion of the water was from the fouth end of 
the pond to the north end, leaving the ground or 
bottom of the fifli-pond on the fouth end altogether 
without water, for the fpace of fix feet. It then re- 
turned, and flowed at the fouth end,, fo as to rife 
three feet up the banks, and immediately went back 
again to the north, where it likewife flowed three 
feet up the banks; and in the time betwixt the flux 
and reflux, the water fwelled up in the middle of the 
pond like a ridge, or rifing part of land. This mo- 
tion or agitation of the water, from fouth to north, 
and from north to fouth alternately, backwards and^ 
forwards. 
