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Consequences of the Deluge.

of Air appeared' in the crevistes or flit* 0the Coal, where water had been before, i nfinal) blewilh flame, flashing and darting hSword-blades from fide to side of the P 1 ^and being kindledhad the lame and m° rviolent effects than thole of Hajleberg oHiwgerjworth, leaving a foul ill-lented lmokbehind it. In the last there mention’d [f'flosoph. Tranjatl. Numb.x 36.] firing of it ^one who ran indiscreetly with his Candle 0ver the Eye of the damp Pit, it flew to a' 1fro over all the hollows of the work vv'k 11a great wind and mighty roaring, toreMens clothes from their backs, sindging ^burning them, as also their hair and ski* 15 ’carrying some of them 15 orx 6 yardstheir fil ls station, beating them against ^Roof of the Coal and the Posts. As it df 6 ^up to the Day-pit, it caught one that ^next the Eye along with it, and up it coi^ 5and was discharged out of the mouth of t' 1 ®ihaft with a terrible crack , not unlike, ^more shrill then a Cannon, so that it ^heard fifteen miles off The Man’s stoopand other things from the Pit, were seen ^the Air above the tops of the highest Tp*that grew on the brow of the Hill (eig* 1 *’teen yards above the Pit) more thenyards. The barrel of an Hoi so Enginewinding up the Rope of above 1000 pooj 1

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