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violent motion lafied about three quarters of an hour, 
and then the waters fell to their ufual height at that 
time of the tide, and have continued to flow and ebb 
ever lince without any perceivable alteration. I am. 
Reverend Sir, 
Dartmouth, April 30, . t .. . 
1756. lour molt obedient lervant, 
Henry Holdfworth. 
It appears by this account, that the agitation of the 
waters obferved at Ilfarcombe, on the 27th of 
February laft, was not perceived on the fouthern 
coaffc of Devonfliire. 
XCVIII. An Account of a Method of obferving 
the wonderful Co?ifgurations of the fmallefl 
fhining Particles of Snow , with fever al 
Figures of the?n : By John Nettis, Do&or 
of P by fee , and 0 cult ft to the Republic of 
Middleburg, &c. Tranflated from the 
Latin. 
t 
Read May 13, “l" Had a mind to examine what kind 
1 of figured particles icy concretions 
confided of. I found an icy Aar of fix rays, with 
long Arise joined to them on every fide, (which haw- 
ing, together with the rays, angles of lixty degrees, 
were wonderfully adorned on both Tides with other 
long particles) in the mid A of a large veflel of rain 
water ^ 
