had as much blood exp re fled from if as Gained or 
befmcarcd part of a wall three or four inches fquarc. 
I have been informed by the Reverend Dr. 
Wyndham, Warden of Wadham College in this 
Univerfity, that, about thirty years ago, many columns 
of gnats were perceived to rife from the top of the 
fteeple of the cathedral church at Salifbury, by a con- 
fiderable number of people. He like wife declared, 
that thefe columns were feen both by himfelf and 
the Reverend Dr. John Clarke, then Dean of Salif- 
bury ; that, at a fmali diftance, they refembled fmoke ; 
and that this atfirft occafioned a fort of alarm, many 
believing that the church was on fire. 
I (hall only beg leave at prefent to add, that the 
Reverend Mr. Berkeley, Student of Chrift-Church, as 
he aflured me, was entertained with an appearance 
fimilar to that I had feen, the fame evening, in the 
country, at a ftnall diftance from Oxford ; that fome 
of the bodies of gnats perceived by him, unlefs he 
was deceived, afeended much higher than thofe I had 
obferved ; and that I am, with all due fentiments of 
refpedl. Sir, 
Your much obliged. 
and moft obedient. 
humble fervant 
Chrift-Church, Oxon. 
Nov. 15, 1766. 
John Swinton 
Vol. LVir 
Q. 
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