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?4- A PROGRESSIVE WATER-SPOUT.
Defendants had time to make their defence ; but gave no
evidence to any purpose.
The Jury departed from the box, and returning, ac-
quitted Oakham, (the aunt’s husband,) and found the
other three guilty ; who being severally demanded what
they could say why judgment should not be pronounced ?
—Each oi them said nothing ; but I did not do it—I did
not do it. Judgment was then given, and the grand-
mother and husband were executed ; but the aunt had the
privilege to be spared from execution, being with child,.
CAROLUS.
A PROGRESSIVE WATER-SPOUT.
On the 5th of May, 1752, about seven in the evening,
& water-spout fell from the clouds on Deeping Fen, in the
county of Lincoln, and took its progress in a very indirect
manner, to the county bank or dike, whence it carried every
thing that lay loose thereon, such as straw, hay, and stub-
ble, violently before it. When it came into the middle of
Flowbit Wash, where it was first seen, it was a dreadful
sight tozbehold this moving meteor there fixed for several
minutes, spouting out water to a considerable height, per-
haps two yards ; so that it seemed as if the law of nature
was inverted, to see water ascending, and all the time at-
tended with a terrible noise.—Upon the second rout, it
made to the river ; on its arrival there, it discovered its
length with some certainty, for it reached from side to
side, the river being about three yards over ; in its march-
ing along it drove the water before it in a rapid torrent,
tearing in its passage a fishing-net: when it arrived at the
church, it there stopped again, but not above a minute,
whence it arose, and made its passage through the space
that is between the church and the parsonage-house, with-
out doing hurt to either ; so that however natural the cause
may be, yet surely its progression could not be without
the -
Defendants had time to make their defence ; but gave no
evidence to any purpose.
The Jury departed from the box, and returning, ac-
quitted Oakham, (the aunt’s husband,) and found the
other three guilty ; who being severally demanded what
they could say why judgment should not be pronounced ?
—Each oi them said nothing ; but I did not do it—I did
not do it. Judgment was then given, and the grand-
mother and husband were executed ; but the aunt had the
privilege to be spared from execution, being with child,.
CAROLUS.
A PROGRESSIVE WATER-SPOUT.
On the 5th of May, 1752, about seven in the evening,
& water-spout fell from the clouds on Deeping Fen, in the
county of Lincoln, and took its progress in a very indirect
manner, to the county bank or dike, whence it carried every
thing that lay loose thereon, such as straw, hay, and stub-
ble, violently before it. When it came into the middle of
Flowbit Wash, where it was first seen, it was a dreadful
sight tozbehold this moving meteor there fixed for several
minutes, spouting out water to a considerable height, per-
haps two yards ; so that it seemed as if the law of nature
was inverted, to see water ascending, and all the time at-
tended with a terrible noise.—Upon the second rout, it
made to the river ; on its arrival there, it discovered its
length with some certainty, for it reached from side to
side, the river being about three yards over ; in its march-
ing along it drove the water before it in a rapid torrent,
tearing in its passage a fishing-net: when it arrived at the
church, it there stopped again, but not above a minute,
whence it arose, and made its passage through the space
that is between the church and the parsonage-house, with-
out doing hurt to either ; so that however natural the cause
may be, yet surely its progression could not be without
the -