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gunpowder : his neck and left bread: were foon after his death changed 
to a claret colour ; but where the fire-ball fell, it left no wound more 
vifible than the puncfture of a pin, neither did it difcolour his temple ; 
but the third day the lower part of his face altered a little, and the 
other parts of his body became difcoloured more and more, till his 
burial. All his cloaths fmelt like gunpowder newly difcharged. 
hei e were three perlbns ftanding on the adjoining fand ; one was 
violently ftruck on the head, the fecond had his eye finged, and 
the fire-ball fell between the legs of the third into the fand, from 
whence he only perceived a fudden warmth. The day had been 
Ovvry, neither hot nor cold ; and the fun Ihone, though faintly, 
about ten minutes before the explofion. No one had his face turn’d 
towards the South-Weft but Mr. Pethen and R. Atkins. 
f u- xf in f’ meutloned *-he ex ceftes to which the air of this County is sect.vii. 
ubjecr, I cannot but obferve, that, notwithftanding this, the air is Air health 7- 
veiy healthy. Though we have frequent rains, the air is by no 
means rendered thereby lefs fit for refpiration : it is not charged 
With the fluggifh exhalations of bogs, marfhes, or ftagnating pools ' 
among thick woods ; nor do there many flat calms happen and 
when they do, they feldom continue for the fpace of a day ; for 
eituer tie fea breezes interpofe, or the numerous promontories”, 
by opponng and collefting every current of air, promote a conftant 
tlow of wind one way or other round their extremities, fo as that 
mu s feldom reft long. Neither can the faltnefs of the air, nor the 
mineral exhalations, be faid to make the air fickly, as many inftances 
of Jong he (as will appear in the following fheets) being to be. found 
here as in any part of England, fo happily do thefe feeming extremes 
con-eft and qualify one another, and by a mixture, of which we 
know not the limits and proportion, retftify and keep the air in a 
wnoJiome temperature. 
ll | dftantlmen and fifhermen here have many figns of the sect.viii. 
as thofe ’ ^ 
1 „ W en ai1 ’ llave 5 by experience, learned in all places ; 
but one appeared new and Angular to me. Saturday, Auguft 15, 
/52, the wind at VI eft North Weft, the fky cloudy, the Mercury 
moving upwards in the Barometer, about fix in the evening, there 
appeared in the North-Eaft the fruftum of a large rainbow; all the 
as tfi US w f re ve T live] y and diftindl, and it was three times as wide 
was ,?-j rCn °Lf n ordinar y complete Rainbow, but no higher than it 
me. They call it here in Cornwall a weather dog ; but in 
k 5q 
Britilh name ofKernoWh 316 '^ 0 ^ 1 " t0 ^' ve lands) to this County, whence the more modern 
Jvernou, (figmfying horns, or head- names of Cornwall, Cornubia, Cornugallia, Sec. 
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