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100 EFFECTS or LIGHTNING. 
Here it entered the chamber, tearing off fome of the ciel= 
ing and plaiftering of the wall. AtE. hunga glazed pic- 
ture with a gilded frame, which was fhivered to pieces. 
It appears to have pafled both ways along the gilding of 
the frame to the oppofite corner, from thence it paffed 
along the furface of the wall ina crooked line, which it. 
has marked pretty ftrongly, about halfan inch wide, to 
the upper end of the lower hinge of the clofet door. From 
the bottom of this hinge it feems to have paffed, by the 
rivets through to the infide of the clofet, and probably by 
a nail through the floor, burfting off the cieling and 
lathing of the clofet of the kitchen below. This ctofet 
door was broken to pieces, and thrown toa diftance by the 
explofion, the left hand ftile only remaining. From this: 
clofet it feems to have difpérfed in every dire@tion. No 
traces of it are to be feen on the walle of the clofet, but a 
number of pewter plates and difhes which were ftanding 
on the fhelves were a little melted where they touched 
each other only. Part of the lightning appears to have 
paffed along the fhelf over the fire place, on which 
ftood a coffee-pot and other kitchen furniture, which it, 
only difplaced without injuring them. At F. a large hand 
bellows was fufpended by a firing on a nail, the back 
board of which was fplit through, apparently with great 
violence. 
Both the kitchens were filled with fmoke, foot, and 
afhes by the explofion, but no perfon hurt. [he woman 
who, faw the ball of fire at the upper end of the pot hook, 
is confident that it proceeded upwards. ‘This opinion was 
probably founded on the explofion of the bricks and earth 
upwards at A. We know not any appearance which 
could determine whether its progrefs was. upwards or 
downwards, 
A young woman who was fitting on the right fide of 
the clofet door, within a foot of the fhivered part, re= 
ceived 
