A 



JOURNAL 



or 

 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



AND 



THE ARTS. 



SEPTEMBER, 1804. 



ARTICLE L 



Letter from Mr. John Go ugh, containing a Narrative offomc 

 ief!> common Effeds of Lightning, by the Rev. Jonathan Wil- 

 son, and Remarks by the Communicator. 



SIR, Middlejhaw, Aug, 13, 1804^, 



A HE following is a copy of a letter which I lately received 

 from the Rev. Jonathan Wilfon, Vicar of the parifti of Bid- 

 dulph, in StafFordftiire. The fa6ts and remarks contained in 

 it, may prove acceptable to many of your philofophical 

 readers, as well as to myfelf ; and by giving it a place in your 

 Journal, you will oblige 



JOHN GOUGH. 



Congleton, Aug. 1, 1804. 

 THE following circumftance induced me to defer my reply Stroke of light- 

 to your letter for a few days : On the 15th ult. I was informed 2'affe£' a 

 in my way to church, by the farmer of Biddulph Hall, that, circle of ao yards 

 on the 7th, the lightning ftruck a plain arable field of his, ^'^ «*"^«^«r' 

 which he ufes at prefent for a cow pafture. I went with him, 

 and found that the electric fluid had killed the tops of the taller 

 thiftles, in a circle of about twenty yards in diameter; but 

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