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movetl by a small pinion, in the ordinary way; tlie dianif^*- 

 ter of the interior wick is 0*9 of an inch; the other mea< 

 sures 3 inches, and the whole seems to be made of brass. 

 Long Acre, I remain, dear Sir, 



Jan. 14 1S04.. Wilh much esteem^ yours, 



J. Hume, 



LV. A JMcthod of affording Helief to Persons iujitred lij 

 Lightning. Cummuriicated in a Letter from Mr. Isaiah 

 G11.EEKX to the Rev. Mr. Steele*. 



XXAViXG heard bv common report that the house of Mr* 

 Martin, of Augusta, was struck with lightning; on the night 

 of the £?5th of June 1S03 ; and that he and his wife were 

 much injured by the s-hock ; and that by sonje means or other 

 they were relieved, but could not learn how, I sent to 

 tfiem, requesting them to write to me a statement of the 

 facts which attended that event with as much precision as 

 possible. In due time I received a letter from Mr. Gilbert, 

 who is father-in-law to Mr. Martin, iu which he wrote as 

 follows : — ■ 



" On the night of the 2jth of June the house of Mr. 

 Wm. Martin was struck wath lightning at the north ridge, 

 ft shivered the stud which stood directly under the ridge, 

 rent the boards at the gable-end, entered the room w^here 

 Mr. Martin and his Wife were asleep, a'lid dashed a looking- 

 glass to pieces' which hung at the foot of tiiei bed. The 

 lightning' passed from where the looking-glass hung in a 

 tHrection to the axis. Mrs.' Martin was affected across her 

 loinsj and"paVticuIarly her right arm ; the other arm also 

 was affected, but in a less degree. Mr. Martin was affected 

 in his heaiil' aiid shoulders ; they were both asleep. A child 

 which lav oh the back side of the bed, it is supposed, was 

 awakenccVby the tbumler, and, being greatly frightened, 

 cried owt. This awakened Mrs. Martm, and she found 

 herself in a situation in which she was unable to move her 

 liuibs ;■ but after two or three exertions she rolled herself 

 off the bied, and then discovered the curtain over her head 

 to be on fire. Betj^rc she got off the bed she discovered 

 that her husband, was speechless and senseless. When she 

 had'got off th'c'bed to the floor, and the child also, she 

 crawled to the forcside of the bed. Here, on the floor^ 



■* From. the New York Advertiser. 



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