Welsh Journals

that you dont tell me whether the Effects mentiond there, are in Ready money, Lands, Bonds, or Cattle which I would be glad to know if Could Enquire further into ye affair, & write to me pr first opportunity. as for ye ace* I promisd to send you Concerning ye wonder that was seen in ye Air, according to ye best Enquiry I could make 111 give it you with all ye Impartiality Imaginable and Let you Judge of ye Cause and Effects of ye Phenomena. On Decr ye 5th 1733 at about 2 In ye afternoon an Indifferent dull cloudy day, Inclining to rain, ye wind blowing fresh S.S.E. one William John Lewis a Farmer of ye Parish of Holyhead being within half a mile to ye E.S.E. of Holyhead a Plowing with a servant boy in ye fields. He with his boy saw Coming from ye mountains of Snowden a vessel of about 90 ton as he guessd Rig'd after ye manner of a Catch [? Ketch] under all her sails with ye Fore Tack at ye Cathead sailing in ye air about a Quarter of a mile High from ye Ground steering directly towards him, with her penant & antient flying but of what colour he could not Discern; after he had taken some notice of ye phenomena he ran home to Call out his wife and by ye Time she came to ye Door all that she saw was the Vessel returning Stern foremost towards Carnarvonshire mountains. The penant coming upon Deck and all ye sails down and Furld or at least not to be perceivd. The masts Boltsprit and yards very plain and then a cloud receiving ye vessel out of sight. The next day after this strange story was spread abroad I went to ye mans House to Enquire into ye truth and Particulars of this Story. The man being not at Home, His wife with some unwillingness told me ye above passage that she had seen, and how her husband calld her out and that she did not care to mention it Lest people might Imagine it was an Invention of theirs. Sometimes after I met her Husband in Holyhead of whom I Enquird further, who agreed in what ye woman said in most particulars Excepting Sea Terms for she could not say how she was Rigg'd but said she was like ye old Packuet boats (which tis known were Catches). He said further that he could count ye very Ropes of her