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ground ; and, in fhort, left in filch a Guttered,

mangled condition as (cake any defcription can give
you an adequate idea of.
The change in the face of the country was wry

fc17jle. yg-dieefool: ',,`";twniches'PO;te the

tables (in all their verdure the day before), as if
!Galled with zthereal firc, hung down thcir droopini
beads. Every hcrb, every plant, every flower, had
its leaves withered, ihrivelled up, and turned black.
The leaves upon the trees, efpecially on the weather
Gde, fared in the fame manner. The evergreens
alone kern to have ekaped. The grafi alfo, in a
few days time, recovered itfelf in a great ;mall..
I agreed at fiat with the generality of people in
their opinion, that lightning had done all this mil:
chief: but upon recolleeting, that there had not
been much ken any where, in many places none at
all, but that the died was general ( r), as far as
ever the wind had reached ; I began to thilk, that
fome other caufe might probably be affigned. Ac-
cordingly, I (et myfelf immediately to examining
the dew at rain, which had fallen on the grafs,
down, Cole. in hopes of being enabled, by its talle,
to form forne better judgment of the fulphureous
nitrous particles (or of whatzvet other quality they
were), with which the air was fo irongly impregnated
that night, as to produce fuch ftrange effetts. Nor was
I deceived in my expedations : tor, upon tailing it,

11 I Ilpon inquiry, I find, that no Coat thing was sabot anneal

in Northumberland fin te probably hal not eetended any fen.
re Ott ealterard, dun the huts of ow own county.
l found

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