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•into the phaenomenon, which happened here the ifl 
of November laft. Some time foon after, I was 
called to give haptifm to a weak child at a houfe 
bordering on Windermere-water, about three miles 
from the head or north end of the lake, and there 
fell in with four boats, two men to each boat, em- 
ployed in drawing with nets for chars. I confulted 
the fifhermen, and was told, that but one of their 
boats was in ufe the day the waters were difturbed, 
and that, at the time of fuch agitation, the boat was 
drawn up aground, and one of the men on fhore, 
and the other fitting in the boat, the lake quite ftill 
and fmooth as glafs, and not a breath of wind, when 
oh a fudden the water fwelled, floated the boat, 
heaved it up about its length farther upon land, and 
took it back again in the falling back of the wave ; 
crtherwife it would have been left quite dry. I aflced, 
what depth of water the boat takes ? and was an- 
fwered, fcarce half a yard. How long the flux and 
reflux continued ? About eight or ten minutes, con- 
tinually decrealing. What time of the day ? About 
ten in the forenoon, but that, having no watch, they 
could not be exa<a. Did the man on land feel no 
trembling under him, or did they hear any noife ? 
No. I have alfo inquired of fome ferry-men, bufy 
at the time on fhore, about the middle part, 1 . 1 , 
about five miles from each end of the lake, who gave 
me the like account in every particular, only that 
their boat was moor’d, and could not be driven on 
fhore. I afked them, that fuppofing one had flood 
at the water’s edge while it was ftill, how deep, 
they imagined, the fwell would have taken him ? 
and was anfwered, they thought, up to the knees. 
