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ftorm, which might have deftroyed them ; for 
no winds are fo dangerous, in the channel, as 
foutherly and fouth-weft. In a word, iince I have 
made this obfervation, I have got out of the 
channel, when other men, as alert, and in fafter 
failing ffiips, but unapprized of this circumftance, 
have not only been driven back, but with diffi- 
culty have efcaped fhipwreck. 
Perhaps, the obfervation, that foutherly gales 
conftantly fucceed thefe phenomena, may help 
to account for the nature of the Aurora Borealis ; 
my own thoughts on that fubjedt, I fhall fome 
time beg leave to lay before you. 
I am, with great refpedl, 
s I R, 
Your obliged, 
humble fervant, 
J. S. WINN. 
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