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funnels of brick-work on the top, of a roundish form, and plastered : these were 

 struck, and inclined to the north, especially that which was on the south end of 

 the house, the plaster being beaten oft", and some of the bricks broken down. 

 There were about 13 persons in this house, none of whom received any hurt; 

 though a lad, who was in the kitchen, into which the door opened, before men- 

 tioned, and the window of which (near where he was standing) had several panes 

 of glass broken, must certainly be much exposed. He said that the fire flew 

 about him in sparks, like those which fly out of burning charcoal, but larger, 

 and snapping as they do. Some pieces of glass were showed, which had been 

 melted. 



The adjoining house, inhabited byMr.Figgins, had the plastering beaten ofFin the 

 front in patches, and one of the chimneys cracked for a great length. In the 

 kitchen window frame, one of the cross pieces, near the middle of the whidow, had 

 a chip struck oft" from it about 5 inches in length, and at one end about a quarter 

 of an inch thick, but thin at the other, and near the width of the frame, but 

 none of the glass broke, nor the lead bent, though in a manner contiguous with 

 the splinter beaten oft". The same thing happened to a parlour window, on the 

 other end of the house ; both the shivers were found directly opposite to the 

 windows, at 10 or 12 yards distant in the road. 



In a small garret, which is next to Mr. Howard's house, where 2 maid-ser- 

 vants lay, the plaster was broken, to appearance inwards, on opposite sides of 

 the room, and near the feet of the bed, which stood on each side about three 

 quarters of a yard from the wall. The breach on the east side, near a window 

 (some panes of the glass of which were broken) was opposite to the vailings of 

 the bed, which were singed, and a hole burnt through them large enough to 

 receive the end of one's fore finger. On the opposite side, just by the chimney, 

 another breach was made, of the same height, in the wall, which was continued 

 downwards for about a yard, but the curtains not at all singed. Directly against 

 this breach, one of the maids, who had got up, and sat on the bed's side, was 

 instantly struck down, but received no hurt : on inquiring of her, whether she 

 seemed to receive a blow on any particular part of her body ? she replied, she 

 was struck all over alike. 



But the most remarkable, though the least terrible effect, appeared on the 

 frame of a pannel of wainscot, about 5 feet long, and about 1-j- wide, in the 

 parlour fronting the east : on this pannel a landscape is painted, and the mould- 

 ing belonging to it had been gilt, but on the last painting the room, the gilding 

 was covered with the same paint : that which covered the gilt moulding was 

 stripped off in irregular ragged streaks throughout, so that the gilding appeared 

 as fresh as it may be thought to have looked when it was painted at first : and as 



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