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that the Flames rolled down Stairs. The Clap of Zlzmfa Jer which immediately followed seemed to all like the suddain Dilcharge of five or fix Field-pieces, not with that rolling, deep noile 77mm'er usually carries along with "it: Indeed, for my part, I thought it had been-Guns. The Second Flalh and Clap followed within at Minutes of the first, but not with that Violence as the former:» Which Flalh 6r'd the Steeple 'I 'cannot lay, but apiece of Wood to which the Lead of the Windows was nailed (the Windows being nothing but Lead cut full of Holes) was let on fire, and kindled very fail, and might have done a great deal'of Mifchiel, had "not, the earliness of the Night, and timely help prevented it. This Storm I'eemed~to.'run in adirect Course; for (everaIral of out side-Towns perceived little of it;, and! be-fl lieve it broke chiefly over ns, for I hear of no Effects it had any where else, but only at Kettering, where one of their Bells, as- some lay, received some damage, and the. Wires of the Chimes were twified one within another; The Wind wasevery blulieringall the Night after. Ofirldlé, lpfa 23: Duff§ "&C-I,

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1, N the' Heads- of all the:Fowl"that [had anr'op-port unity port unity to examine, I coniiaiiely found only one Agaieductas, or Passage iiromthe Ears into the Vallee; whereas