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occasionally swayed a little, it was not affected 

 in any marked manner. 



The effect of the electrical waves on me became 

 less as I descended, but whether from my getting 

 below the electrical stratum, or from a cessation 

 of the current, I cannot say. 



But I did not descend much below eleven 

 thousand feet, and at the lowest point I crossed 

 the South Poudre, at the outlet of Poudre Lakes. 

 In crossing I broke through the ice and received 

 a wetting, with the exception of my right side 

 above the hip. Once across, I walked about two 

 hundred yards through an opening, then again 

 entered the woods, on the southeasterly slope of 

 Specimen Mountain. I had climbed only a short 

 distance up this slope when another electrical 

 wave struck me. The effect of this was similar 

 to that of the preceding ones. There was, how- 

 ever, a marked difference in the intensity with 

 which the electricity affected the wet and the dry 

 portions of my body. The effect on my right side 

 and shoulder, which had escaped wetting when I 

 broke through the ice, was noticeably stronger 

 than on the rest of my body. Climbing soon 



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