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the clouds and ihe earth, the clouds descend 'I’ .asOt''' 
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Rravlty, or by the pressure of the surrounding ‘ u 
That the convolutions of tlie descending 
sible whirlwind felt at the earth, as well as il.e ^ 
of the commencement, increase, and deer > nici| , y 
all demonstrate the whirl of the 
all demonstrate uie wnin or ol^ 1'. 
cause.— That the same vorte.x, whirl, oi ed t ,li^ 
which occasions tlie clouds to descent, o c > 
bodies on the 
lower surface had 
IS tlie clouds to uescena, ov.-- .j. 
earth to ascend.— That, uaiiicu'y 
lower suffice had been water, Uie ?ame me 
would have raised a body of foam, vapour,^ J 
wards the clouds.— That, as soon as the „J“ 
luHists Of dissipates itself, the ,%’atef' ,ri 'I 
fall to the lower surface of the light bodies oi t; 
the ascent of the clond.— That when wa ^ 
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light bedy of tlie lower snrlace, it is pi ^ 
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litllit oeay or me lowe, - - . ^v„ii 
aqueous vapour ot the cloud, by I 
occasion the clouds to condense, and ui> fj/iy 
throagli a syphon. — That if the descent ^-liug j i':i 
electfilied, and the voilex. pass over a 
a church steeple, it is probable it ^“>7 a,= r 
electrical concussion, and tall at that - i(*t 
electrical concussion, ana ran at t u,. su.*v n 
whatever has been taken up from the ^rs 
producing the strange phenomena o, 
llsh, &c-And, lastly ,_ it appears <^ertain, ^^^,3 tb 
the air on the mass ol clouds, pressing ca^’ -0 
of the vortex as to a laimel (which, 111 t j 
represented,) occasioned such a condensat 
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the simultaneous fall ot ravu to a 
In liie month of July, 1800 , a ,, 
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rapidly to approach a ship navigating 
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iciuiuiv v^J — I- — ^ ^ ;cria * ,n ) f • 
Islands. It had the appearance ot » joud %/■ f 
■••1 its descent, and proceeding from ins ,,„j afl .i/y 
:n us nescciit, auu p1u1.ccv4.ii3*- „,ilcs sF tr, 
sea. It moved at the rate of about two » j.. liie yf ^ 
a loud sound of rain, passing >be ste.i ^ t«y^_ 
wetting the after part of the mainsail- . ^oiis *; 
eluded tlrat water-spouts gid 
water, as has been coiilirraed by subsed ,Ve"‘ 
^ater, as nas oetn cuumuicu uj oka^- *.| .g 
In November, 1801 , about twenty m . [,t ‘ , 
tl-e Adriatic sea, a water-spout was seen y 
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southward; round its lower extremity 
feet hij:!), nearly of the. iorm of mi 
