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time he felt no other inconvenience from the shock, than a 
sensation of numbness, which affected his arms for an in- 
definite period. While he lay upon the deck, a young gen- 
tleman standing near him, observed numerous flashes, or 
sparks, of light, about his body, strongly resembling those 
issuing from a firebrand, when whirled swiftly round. They 
were accompanied by a crackling, or snapping noise. Anoth- 
er person on board, experienced a lighter shock, which 
occasioned so much oheabieha in one of his arms, that for a 
few minutes, he was unable to use it. ere was an iron 
spindle at the top ofthe mast, for suspending the colours ; 
but no lightning rod. No injury however was done to the 
vessel. Was that part of the cloud, from which the light- 
ning issued, lower than the to ‘of the mast ? 
those who where on the deck observed that at ge time the 
rain descended in streams, and sheets. oung gen- 
tleman above mentioned states that, at one weed the water 
on the quarter deck accumulated so rapidly from the rain 
only, as to be higher than the tops of his shoes. 
A gentleman, who was in the south store, at the Point, 
feeling much wast for his friends on board the sloop, ab- 
nomena of the storm, with more exactness, 
than presto shea! person, with whom I have conversed. His 
follows. When the two clouds met, they ap- 
pics es fall down sai the river, between the store and 
ivingston’s wharf, upon th e east bank. The cloud rested 
upon the water in such a manner, that he could discover no 
space between them. As it came over itappeared extreme- 
ly dark at the bottom, and as white as a snow bank at the 
top. The air suddenly became so obscure, he was 
unable to see any part of a large pertiauger, which lay at 
his wharf thirty feet distant, except that mee nots barely dis- 
cern the poles. He particularly noticed tha e could not 
of rain was most co} between b quarter before 6 o’cloc 
and a quarter after ee Tn this half hour imates t 
scent of water to have exceeded gens inches upon alevel, 
Atan ino, thirty rods northward, the family were unable 
m considerable period at the pa 
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