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Mr. Sandys, of Graythwaite, tells me, that his 
hufbandman, and one of his farmers, were that fore- 
noon at work in a field, within fight of the lake, 
about two miles and a half from the foot or fouth 
end of it, and, on their return home, told him, that 
about ten a clock they heard a noife from towards 
the water like, as they could imagine^ the found of 
the flate off the whole fide of any large building. 
Aiding down the roof at once ; that they expedted it 
to be forac ftrong gufl of wind coming at a diftance, 
but as they could not' afterward^ fee a twig Air, they 
were at a lofs to conjediure whence it proceeded ; 
that the water was quite fHU before and fmooth, but 
on that noife they obferved a narrow rippling (to ufe 
their own word), from the point of a rock, not far 
from them, acrofs the lake, but were not nigh 
enough to obferve any other agitation. I have alfa 
confulted a ferryman belonging to Thir Aon- water, 
commonly called ConiAone- water, a lake about Ave 
miles in length. He fays he was Aanding, at the 
time mentioned, at their landing-place, and was fur- 
prifed to fee the water Aow up the bank when there 
was not the leaA wind, and the water quite calm, 
I afked, how high it Aow’d ? He faid, about a yard 
up the bank, and continued its motion back and for- 
ward about five minutes, as near as he could guefs, 
for that he did not look at his watch at the time. 
How much he computed the perpendicular fwell ? 
He thought about a foot ; which, as I know the 
place, I think is pretty near the truth, anfwerable to 
a yard-flow up the bank.. I am told alfo,. from a 
perfon of credit, that the like agitation, though in 
a lefs degree, and. fhorter continuance, was obferved 
