22 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [ANNO 1781. 



the least power of motion of any of his limhs for a long time. On help coming 

 in, and examining his clothes, which were blue cloth, his right sleeve, both of 

 coat and waistcoat, and also shirt, were all torn on the inside of the arm entirely 

 open, as if by a dog, from the shoulder to the wrist; the right side of the 

 breeches was tern in the same manner, and part of each of the brass buttons 

 melted. 



He had in his fob a gold watch with a steel chain; the button which opens it, 

 and 3 other places of the case were melted. The pendant to which the chain is 

 fixed was almost melted through, and much of the steel chain is incorporated with 

 it, as is reciprocally some gold on that part of the steel which was within the fob. 

 The going of the watch had stopped instantaneously, occasioned as at first appeared 

 by the small pendulum spiral steel spring having been lengthened; not that it was 

 absolutely so, but relatively, respecting the scapement of the watch, the several 

 inner turns being brought closer together. His right arm, right side, and thigh, 

 were miserably scorched, and the flesh torn: the foot of the stocking of his right 

 leg and his shoe were torn in several places between the buckle and the toe-end 

 of the shoe, and one of his toes split almost to the bone; but the buckle, which 

 was a broad silver one, was not the least hurt nor even marked, and remained 

 buckled as before. His sleeve-button of gold, in which was plaited hair covered 

 with crystal, was broken from its link, and neither hair nor crystal have been 

 found. A key and a penknife in his right-side breeches pocket have several 

 marks of fusion on them. 



The frame of the window, on which Mr. Adair was leaning, was little 

 damaged; but every pane of glass so completely smashed, it could scarcely be 

 perceived it had ever any glass in it. The room was stuccoed and papered, and 

 between the windows hung a large pier glass, which, with much of the stucco, 

 was shivered to pieces, and strewed over the floor. A door opposite the window 

 was shattered to pieces, and the posts of a bed in a room behind, and all the 

 bell-wires were destroyed. Under the dining-room Mr. Adair was in, on the 

 parlour floor, were his coachman, butler, and footman. The coachman was 

 going to open a glass-door to go towards the sea, and was struck dead. His 

 body was totally black. His clothes, and the caul of his wig, and cravat, were 

 much torn; but no particular flesh wound was found. The enamelled face of 

 his silver watch was broken to pieces, and the links of its steel chain fastened 

 together. 



The footman was dressing his hair near a window, when he was thrown dead 

 on the ground. He appeared much scorched, bruised, and black. He had a 

 very large wound in his side, which penetrated near his heart; but very little, if 

 any, blood came from it. His buck-skin breeches were much torn, and the 

 steel of a metal knee-buckle driven through them. The window sash was driven 



