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Vol.5.

may. 30th. 1678.

mr. Henshaw the vice president tooke the chair.
The minutes of May the      being Read gaue occasion of
Discoursing concerning the Reuiuing of Persons that had been
drowned for a considerable time. concerning which subject it
was alledged that Pecklineus had written a large Discourse
and ^ /of wch/ mr. Henshaw affirmed ^ /that the society/ he had had a particular account
from mor: Stierhelm the Resident of Swethland -

Sr. Ionas more gaue an account to the Society that
mr. Edmund Hally (who went to the Island of St. Helena
in order to obserue the true places of the starrs neer
the south pole) was newly Returnd to England &
that he had compleated his Designe by hauing taken
the true places of aboue 400 considerable starrs. That
the place of his obseruation was aboue 1000 yards
aboue higher then the surface of the sea. that by rea
son of that /great/ continuall height there was there almost
continually cloudes & mists which passed by very
swiftly. that this mistiness and moysture of the
air Did Dissolue the Glew of the Tubes. That he
obserued that these cloudes & mists Did Rise immediatly
out of the Sea on one side and passe ouer the Island
and fall downe on the other side, and that this mist
nesse was only ouer the Island and not on the Inco[m]
pasing sea. That the Air was exceeding temperate &
healthfull. And as an argument hereof he Related
that . . . /an/ ancient /couple/ Persons hauing gone ouer in the same
from hence to Inhabite there the Husband being 55 years
of Age and the wife 52. the wife was great wth. child
and Ready to be deliuerd when he came from thence
That the Island afforded plenty of wild Partridges &
Turky henns. that the whole Island seemed to be one

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