all command. The hail-stones were white, 
'i! '.'lie shining within. 
Sietl I * May, 1686 , the. city of Lille, in Flanders, 
ry o “y a tremendous hail ston 
tremendous hail storm. The hail-stones 
*<ii '* quarter of a pound to a pound weight, 
. ti],. more - ■ - - 
HAIL STORMS. 
453 
V "i"' ‘tt tl among the rest was observed to 
■(i fire ^ ® dark brown matter, and being thrown 
Vl‘ ^rid’ ^ report. Others were trans- 
'V*^'’er instantly before the fire. This storm 
^p\vi||j die city and citadel, leaving not a whole glass 
die windward side. The trees vix-re 
V ahi beaten down, and partridges and hares 
\'®97 
V '"gs g fiorrid black cloud, attended with frequent 
( Car'd thunder, coming with a south-west wind 
.tUr' d^i^'onshire, and passing near Snowdon, was 
} tl* ^eiiK' ^ most tremendous hail storm. In the 
'Veaii®' '“dire bordering on the sea, all the windows 
y V 'dt side were broken by the hail-stones dis- 
a i.*^*''* and the poultry and lambs, toge- 
sgv "''"S® mastiff, killed. In the north part of 
br^***^ Imd their heads broken, and were 
»^1; 1 ^* in their limbs. The main body of this 
• C^'^'irn Lancashire, in a right line from Ormskirk 
;<,j tlQyj’ °n the borders of Yorkshire. The breadth 
t>l about two miles, within which compass 
j'^ll (.j. 'niB damage, killing all descriptions of fowl 
*'nres, and scarcely le.aving a whole pane of 
it i*^'d 'vindows where it passed. What was 
r'>i»'^*^ti dughed up the earth, and cut oft' the blade 
AiVfietfi 'V'’ '’d'"''* titterly to destroy it, the hail-stones 
\ \y(;i^f ' 'i''’ in the ground. These hail-stones, some 
nnnees, were of difterent forms, some 
; some smooth, others embossed 
■jV Jr > like the foot of a drinking glass, the ice 
V5eif'*l'dst '^Pni'iint and hard ; but a snowy kernel was 
daost of them, if not of all. The force 
mo Wet 
‘d.nght 
that they descended from a great height. 
Hli ''s 
j. (q - •• .440..&A »».W 
''S a (r ^''S^nl, should have continuedi undispersed 
‘ as upwards of sixty miles, and should. 
,1 - - to be most extraordinary in this pheno- 
'‘'■’t the • 
vapour which disposed the aqueous 
