U’lIIRLWINDS AND WATEESPOUTS. 45g 
I'lJj of rain was visibly falling from tbe mass of 
('^'^“'Hiected with it, llie extent being exactly defined 
',;sii . “teadtli of Hollcway, Higligate, and Hornsey. 
walking from Kentish-Town 
Holloway, It was found that one of the heaviest 
lain remembered by the inhabitants had fallen 
® foot of Highgate-hill ; and some persons having 
J-Ss ^'‘’‘’jecting cloud, an absolute belief existed that a 
S had burst at the crossing of the new and old 
proceeding towards London, various accounts 
J»ith the superstition or pre-conceived notions of 
^itij| ^fders, were given ; but, in the farm-yard at the 
L ®'one, it appeared that some hay-makers were 
a waggon which stood between two ricks, 
V’ whirlwind which passed over Kentish 
V'Ut , hissed over the loaded waggon with an impetus 
Put 1 above twenty yards from its station, 
the road.it carnied with it a stream of 
unroofing a shed on the other side, filled 
great height with fragments of hay, leaves 
V‘tiily b'ces, which resembled a vast flight of birds 
the writer beheld the descending cloud, or 
Y%y , pass over, and they saw its train, which, at the 
V Pe to be a flight of birds. They afterwards be- 
vNtuJ'^®*^ding cloud draw itself upward, and they, and 
i ^«scribeit as a vast mass of smoke working 
g ^'011 ; to them it was nearly vertical in a northera 
V Vic 1 • persons a quarter of a mile north, it was 
Y''kflf ‘n a soutliern direction ; and all agree that it 
vhaiil^P V'^'erit rain, and was followed near the earth 
' W ''t 1 bodies. It appeared also, on various tes- 
1 v‘‘'tiin'^ ‘'self down in a gradual and hesitating man- 
'.V'tig 1 ^ ® ef cloud, and then 
HjN. and curling and twisting about, till it 
Sfadually drew itself into the cloud.” . 
'vhich Sir Richard draws from what he saw 
dS.t’Oin ? 3s fellow : “ That the phenomenon called 
d t] 'l>e 3 mere collection of clouds, of the same 
I '''''hence they are drawn. That the descent 
' ItL] 3 whirlwind, which creating a 
S‘> degree of rarefaction, extending betwee# 
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