Indian or Horse Ckesnuts. 153 



Durham, Sunday, June 5.— The morning was cloudy, and 

 portended a thunder storm, and about mid-day distant thun- 

 der was heard in the neighbourhood, attended by very vivid 

 lightning. The storm gradually increased till the evening 

 was far advanced, and the lightning became remarkably 

 vivid, approachiug very close to the earth. At nine P. M., 

 as captain W. and Mrs. W. (at present residing in Durham) 

 were walking on the race-ground, a flash of lightning passed 

 between them, running along the metal buttons of caplaiu 

 W.'s coat_; he felt a sensation, as he expressed, as if a strong 

 electrical shuck had been given to the left side, which was 

 followed by a numbness of that side for four hours after, 

 and next morning he felt a pain of the left shoulder. He 

 reniaiktd also, " that though he has been much abroad, in 

 tropical climates, he never remembers to have seen such 

 vivid lightning; and that he is persuaded that if he had 

 been only half a step further advanced it would have struck 

 himlitdtssl" Mrs. W. did not feel any shock, though 

 she was on the lejt side of captain W., and close to him 

 when it happened. 



INDIAN OR HO>RSE CHESNUTS. 



M. de la Chabaussiere, a French agriculturist, has ad- 

 dressed the following hints on this subject to the Editor of 

 one of the Foreign Journals* : 



<■•■ It has been stated in several Journals, that in Saxony 

 chesnuts are advantageously employed in feeding cows. Tliis 

 method is also known in the environs of Montpelier, at 

 which place they are sold in the market, although no per- 

 son has as yet noticed the fact. I have long regretted that 

 so fine and so abundant a fruit has not been turned to more 

 advantage. 



"It has been suggested, that these chesnuts might supply 

 the place of soap and candles, or tapers may also° he made 

 of them. In Silesia, they extract the oil from the fcculum 



• Bibl. Phys. Econ. May 1807. 



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