EFFECTS or LIGHTNING. Tai 
three ftories at the Eaft end. At each end there are two 
ftacks of chimnies, which rife from the roof about half 
way between the eaves and the ridge. The pointed con- 
ductors, one at each end, are faftened to the two moft 
Southerly chimnies, and are brought direQly down the 
outfide of the wall to the ground, which they enter pro- 
bably but a few feet, on account of the rock. The rods 
are well made the pieces being fcrewed together and not 
connected by hooks. 
The cloud which difcharged the lightning came from 
the Weft, and the fluid appears to have proceeded down 
the Weftern conductor, at leaft in part, for the point is 
melted down to a confiderable thicknefs. The next per- 
ceptible effect of it is on the South fide of the fame chim- 
ney, where it has torn up the fhingles of the roof nearly 
18 inches in breadth, from the chimney dire€tly down to 
a water gutter, covered with copper, which runs along 
the roof from Weft to Eaft a foot above the eaves, and at 
the Eaft end is connected with a copper fpout which comes 
directly down along the wall, within four feet of the earth, 
where it difcharges the rain water into a cedar tub, bound 
with iron hoops. 
The lightning appears to have paffed quietly along the 
copper, the whole length of the gutter andfpout. About 
a hands breadth below the end of the fpout it tore off and 
fhivered in pieces an inch board, which pafled down be- 
tween the {pout and the wall and had been lower down 
than the {pout, partly pafling into the tub, it made its way 
through to the outfide, and thence into the earth, throw- 
ing off many {mall fplinters from different fides of the 
tub. 
Another part of the lightning appears to have proceed- 
ed along the Weftern rod until it came dire€tly oppofite to 
the copper gutter, from which itis diftant 6 or 7 feet: it 
then ran along the cornifh, part of which it threw off in 
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