Consequences of the Deluge. 103

iiW' ^ 0rms » lor the most part it hails: nay,soch Tempests 1 have seen mighty fliow-ot great Hail-stones fall, some as big asutmegs or Pigeons Eggs; and in tome pla-uch heaps ot them, as would load Dungarts > and have not been dislolved in a dayor two. At the tame Seasons I have obser-r e ^, in some (bowers Hail-stones fall of ir-^Solar Figures, and throughout pellucid ,great pieces of Ice, with several liiagsf angs idiiing out of them : v\ hich how‘ le y could be iupported in the Air till theyjounced to that bulk and weight, isa thing^’orthy to be more curiously considered.

J 1 °r either they must fall fioman incredibleheight, the Vapours, they encountred by the^’ay, condensing and as it were crystallizing**Pon them into Ice, and in time augmentingmem to that bulk, or else there must bestrange and unknown 1 acuity in the^ lr to sustain them. That the luperiour Air. ot h support heavy Bodies better then the^lersour, the flight of Birds seems to be ac sear demonstration. For when they are|h°unted up on high, they fly with less fa-j'S^e, and move forward with greater faci-^ c )’> and are able to continue longer uponhe wing without delaslation then in the°Wer Atr they could possibly do. And there-°re when they are to make great flights,

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