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What had been the nature of his sensations ? when he answered, 

 I heard nothing, I saw nothing. The rector of Saint-Keverne, 

 in Cornwall, Mr Anthony Williams, was struck on the 18th of 

 February 1770, by the same thunderbolt which did so much 

 damage in the parish church. On recovering, after having 

 been long in a fainting state, he declared he had neither seen 

 the lightning nor heard the thunder. Mr Luke Howard inter- 

 rogated the survivor of one of two gardeners who were thrown 

 unconscious to the ground in a country house in the neighbour- 

 hood of Manchester. This individual, George Bradbury, po- 

 sitively declared that he had neither heard the thunder nor see7i 

 the lightning at the moment of the accident. On the 11th of 

 July 1819, a thunderbolt broke upon the church of Chateau^ 

 netif-les-Moutiers, near Digne, in the Department of the Low 

 Alps ; it killed nine and wounded eighty-two pe?'Sons, Among 

 these last was the curate of Moutiers ; he was taken up com- 

 pletely asphyxiated ; his surplice was in flames. He revived 

 two hours after the accident, and declared " that he had heard 

 nothing, and knew nothing of all that had passed." Mr Rock- 

 well, who was struck with lightning in August 1821 , had neither 

 seen the lightning, nor heard the noise. H. N. Reeves, a work- 

 man, who, in June 1829, was labouring on the steeple of Salis- 

 bury, fell down unconscious immediately after a vivid flash of 

 lightning : when he awakened from his deep unconsciousness, 

 he stated that he did not perceive the lightning at the moment 

 of his fall. 



(7b be continued in next Number.) 



On the Geology of the Neighbourhood of Kelso, By Charles 

 Le Hunte, Esq. In a Letter to the Editor. 

 Deae Sir, — During a short residence at Kelso, in the course 

 of the present autumn, I made some observations on the neigh- 

 bouring rocks, that appear worthy of attention. In walking to 

 the picturesque village of Yetholm, I was agreeably surprised, 

 when within about two miles of it, to find that the red sandstone, 

 the prevailing stratified rock of the district, appeared to have 

 been altered, by the pyrogenous rocks that abound in the neigh- 

 bourhood. The sandstone is here, usually, of a deep colour, 

 very fine grained, and contains minute particles of mica, as wellj 

 as of a white dull mineral. The first indication of change, is 



