S6 fatal eff^Bs of LigUnlng. 



fat very near a window, and placed herfelf on the floor be- 



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tween Lis feet ; covering her head with the flvirt of his coat. 

 Mr. Henderfon, who elves me the account, fat alfo on the 

 Iloor, not more than two feet from the fatal fpot. 



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The cloud came up in the weft, and in the midfl of the 



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ftorm, there was a violent difcharge of tliunder, "which burft 



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off the caling of the window near which they fat, carrying 

 pieces of the boards to the middle of the room, and filling the 

 whole with a ftrong fulphurcous fmelh 



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As foon as the perfons in the room were recovered from 



the firfl impreflion, they found the girl v^- as clec^d. Mr. Hen- 

 derfon, who gives me the account, was for feme tinie infenfi- 



ble of what had happened. His filler was alfo ftruck down. 

 He tells me, he had no recollecflion of the c/a/>, but as he came 

 to his fenfes, he faw the girl dead, and found himielf fo in- 

 jured that he could riot fland. He was put to bed, and in the 

 morning he found one of his arms was burnt and bliftered j 

 and feveral days 'pafTed before he recovered the ufe of his hm.bs; 



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I cannot determine from any clrcumftances related whether 



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the difcharge was from the cloud, or from, the earth. The 



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cafings of the window, indeed, were flung into the mom, but 

 it appears from careful obfervation, that flivers and light pieces 

 of wood, w^ere driven, at the time of explofion, in every direc- 



tion from the place where a breach is made. ^ 



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in the cellar, and directly under the place where the unfor- 



tuoate child was fitting, there was ah iron fpit,' t^e ' one en^ 



of 



