248 Mr. LErE's Account of the Effecis of 
"The houfe was fhingled, and one fhingle appeared loofened. A 
man was in bed in the garret directly under where the fluid en- 
tered, and muft have been {mitten by it, had not the iron hinge 
drawn it from that direction to itielf. .The hinge was two feet 
from one hole, and two feet and an half from the other in an 
oblique direction. The angle, at the corner of the hinge near- 
eft the holes, was left very bright ; and, probably, that angle 
operated as a point to attract and receive the electrical matter. 
The wire, ia many places, was melted ; and, dropping, burnt . 
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he floor. One of the gentlemen, who was in bed in one of the 
. rooms, leaping out upon the floor, burnt S. of. his feet, 
where they touched the wire. To others, the wire feemed to 
be in flames, and a fulphureous fmell remained in the chambers. 
The houfe is higher than any that was near it, fituated on the 
fouth fide of the ftreet ;—has no point, or condu&or, fixt to 
it ;——was ftruck at the weftern and eaftern ends ; and the back 
.door, which communicated with the bell-wire, is on the fouth 
fide. The other that was ftruck, was at the eaftern end. 
:. On the 8th of July, 178 |, the wind being at the northward of 
welt, but variable, the houfe of Dr.Ssippen, jun. [Plate II. Fig.1.] 
was alfo ftruck, in ner that will be beft underftood by the en- 
clofed fketch, or ground-fection, Fig. 2.] of the houfe ; though, 
to comprehend it, we muft fuppofe, that the courfe of the wire, 
reprefented by the dotted lines, is along the ceiling, inftead of the 
floor, as is here reprefented. The traces of the lightning, that 
appear in the houfe, (for there are none outfide) are thefe.—At 
_.the place where the broken wire ends in the paflage, and is coil- 
ed up at Z, the plaifter is beat off, about the fize of a large hand 
expanded, to the brick wall, which is uninjured. Between the 
‘bells, a and b, the ceiling is raifed and cracked, in à ftraight di~ 
: ^ reion, 
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