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lleceivcd April 13, 17(59. 
XIII. A l^etter f?^om the Rev, Mr. Wil- 
liam Paxton, Buck land Brewer, 
in the County of Deyon, to Dr, Milles, 
Dean of Exeter, F. R, S. and Pr. S. A, 
Buckland Brew^er, Apri^ 7, 1/69. 
R E V. Si R, 
Read April ^o, ^ HAD the favour of yours, and 
^ with great chearfulnefs comply -with 
your requed, as far as faint woreds can exprefs what, 
in reality, is beyond the power of defeription. 
On Thurfday, the 2d of March, about four of the 
clock in the afternoon, a cloud, of a mod: uncom- 
mon blacknefs, gathered in the wefl-north-wed:, 
and, taking its courfe to ead-fouth-eaft, diffufed a 
moft prodigious darknefs, accompanied with a very 
copious daovver of hail. It paffed immediately over 
the church tower (remarkable for the height both 
of its lituation and ftrudure), and, burfting with in- 
credible fury, poured forth an amazing body of fire, 
which threw down the fouth-eafi: pinnacle on the 
church, and entering (as I fuppofe) at the breach, 
fhivered a table on which the commandments were 
written, fcorched and difcoloured two tomb-fiones, 
' broke 
