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water into the adjoining kitchens, had also 
sustained no injury. Immediately after the 
explosion, rain fell ina torrent, deluging for 
a moment every thing around; and fora few 
minutes the air in the nearer parts of the 
house was offensively smoky and sulphureous. 
Such were some of the circumstances and 
effects attending an event, in itself awful ; and 
perhaps, unequalled in the records of this part 
of the world. 
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REMARKS 
On the Foregoing Narrative, 
BY MR. HENRY. 
THE very extraordinary circumstances, 
attending the storm described by Mr. 
NICHOLSON, called to my recollection an 
account of a thunder-storm near Coldstream, 
in Scotland, related by Mr. Brydone, in a 
letter to Sur- Joseph Banks, which is inserted 
in, the 77th volume of the Philosophical 
Transactions. Of the leading facts, detailed 
in that communication, the following is a 
brief abstract. 
The storm of thunder and lightning, alluded 
to, happened on the 19th of July, 1785. In 
