.*'yL ■'''hiulwinds akd waterspouts. 46l 
the spout resting obliquely on its crown 
Qistaiice from this spout, the sea began to be 
height of about four feet 
,^1.. leilduicr. n 
descended ti'om the black cloud which 
C® 1 iovp*'’,*“S> and met the ascending mist about twenty 
,r^ethe • • ... - 
i piujc«,.uuiJo iium ulc ciuuu, dppticiieu wiiii 
>i^Uts agitations of the water below, but not always 
^ ^/lically under them; seven spouts in all wert 
r ■ ■ ■ ■ ' ■ 
't 
w''utd yards of the distance being 
■fkM great rapidity. A cloud of a light colout 
liif 
ascend in this cloiid like quicksilver in a glass 
first spout then snapped at about one third of 
r'irp’ inferior part subsiding 
V?«rlii - 
one 
gradually, and the 
•t, ■'•'tal np^yard_. 
n'cr projections from the cloud, appeared with 
two otlier projections re-absorbed. Some ol 
"'fire not only oblique, but curved, the ascending 
most rapidly in those which were vertical, 
“'■att firree to five minutes, and their dissipation 
fiy ^'"‘y fiall of rain. For some days before 
• 4b. • • • y-. -r-« > « » - 
j^yrai^’^ fiad been very rainy, wnu a. vm 
Cofj fallen on tlie day of observation.* 
J^f'"'’ally ^■'*P°nding phenomena of whirlwinds have been 
S;t Vtai' °fi much mischief, as the following 
in ®fi°rV' On the 30lh of October, I 6 C 9 , 
with a S. E. wind ; but 
'■abln 
evening, the wind being then westwardly. 
"'findwind, .scarcely of the breadth of sixty 
^vVj ; spent iiself in about seven minutes, arose 
" Northamptonshire. Its first assault was on a 
pafi and hat were taken from off her 
fiormer carried many scores of yards from her. 
X^JIai'cl fin’’ some days. It next stormed 
S,'i^.V,-ip’- "fiere it blew a waggon body off the axle- 
pieces the latter, and the wheels, three 
\vp."“ ^fiattered, were blown over a wall. Another 
did not, like the former, lie across the 
'■ "and, was driven with great speed against 
fiirm house. A branch of an ash-tree, .so 
“tout men could scarcely lift it, was blown 
1 1 ‘'''prescnUiig tli!' t»t)!ianrrs of a watcr-spoiif, 
"'fi'i't''*' ‘■'f Korolitr«, or meteoric .stones, through 
nyscriheii ; ami lo that subject the rcailer’s at- 
"I viewing ilu uUitc, 
