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Just before our late Vexations, we were terrified with an Earth-quake in the Southern Parts of the Country. And if so base a man as Polydore Virgil could reckon an Earth-quake in England long since, the Forerunner of a Bloody and Cruel French War, We that knew what Neighbours w• had, were not without ground of Conjectures that were none of the most Comfortable or Encouraging.

Just before our late Vexations, we were terrified with an Earth-quake in the Southern Parts of the Countrey. And if so base a man as Polydore Virgil could reckon an Earth-quake in England long since, the Forerunner of a Bloody and Cruel French War, We that knew what Neighbours w• had, were not without ground of Conjectures that were none of the most Comfortable or Encouraging.

In the Summer of the Year, 1688. just before the first eruption of our unhappy War, we had growing in Boston a Cabbage Root, out of which there sprouted three very wonderful Branches, one of them exactly resembling a […], another of them, as exactly resembling a Rapier, and a third, extremely like to the Club used by the Indians in their Barbarous Executions. I was my self one among the Multitudes that visited this Curios• •y, with no little surprise at the oddness of it; and the Characters of it in my thoughts have grown more […] and Solemn, since the […] of it have been so agreeable. I […] imagine my self herein imposed upon, ⟨image 63⟩as Lycosthenes who wrote of Prodigies, was in the Business of his Bearded Grapes; but it would be Cranibe his cocta for me to offer the Reader what Examples parallel hereunto are mentioned by the exquisitely Learned, and Curious Authors of the Renowned German Ephemerides.

In the Summer of the Year, 1688. just before the first eruption of our unhappy War, we had growing in Boston a Cabbage Root, out of which there sprouted three very wonderful Branches, one of them exactly reebling a , another of them, as exactly resembling a Rapier, and a third, extreamly like to the Club used by the Indians in their Barbarous Executions. I was my self one among the Multitudes that visied this Curios y, with no little surprize at the odness of it; and the Characters of it in my thoughts have grown more and Solemn, since the of it have been so agreeable. I imagine my self herein impos'd upon,