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Consequences of the Deluge,

markable that it happened in the Auturfflione of the Seasons in which Aristotle tells ussuch effects are moll frequent, the other be-ing the Spring ; and likewise in the Mofld 1of September ; in the which that about OK-forcl in the Year 1683. fell out: and more-over in a wet .Season , as that also din Ithough the Forenoon of the day was cMand lair, yet in the Afternoon, when th eEarthquake was past.it rained hard tillNigl'Sthe whole precedent Summer ( to this *mean) having been cold and wet: whi^ 5what influence it can have toward the pr°'duction of an Earthquake, unless by stop'ping the Pores of the Earth, and hindringthe evaporation of those sulphureous steamswhich are the efficients of it, I know nor-The fame Night succeeded some strokes otThunder and Flashes of Lightning both h? teand at London , and since then we have hsugreat storms of Wind. I might have takennotice, that for some Mornings before we lMsmart Frosts for the time of the Year.

-Since this was written and sent away 1(1order co printing,I am advis’d byLetter froiUmy honoured Friend Dr. Tancred Robins)*'that this Earthquake was notconfin’d to sbm eCounties of England , as Middlesex ,

Kent, SnJfeX- Hampshire , CSV. but spread Winto Foreign Parts ; an Account whereof J