Tata! effeSis of Lightning, ^ i 



torn in pieces, and driven to fome defiance. Th'/- refinance 

 might alfo give fuch a direction to the fluid, as t break tlic 



fkin ; a thing" not common even where flrokes of Vightnmg 

 have been fatal. But whether the thouglits now fuggef*od 

 carry any evidence to prove that the eledricity of the earth, in 

 the cafe we have been confiderlng, was pofitive, or noi-^ I hope 

 others who have given more attention to ftudies of tl is fort 

 than I have been able to, will be led to make fuch communi- 

 cations as fhall ferve to illuflrate this interefling branch of nat- 

 ural philofophy. , 



With great refpe(fl; and efteem, 



I am. Sir, 



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Your mod obedient. 

 And humble fervant, 



jpr* 



Rev. Dr, Willard, 



JOHN LATHROK 



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An account of the effeEfs bf Lightning on the hotife of JONA- 

 THAN MASON, Efq, in Bofon, In a letter to the Rev. 

 JOSEPH WILLARD, D.D, L.L.D. and vice prefi dent 

 the American Academy of Arts ami Sciences, By Rev. JOHN 



LATHROP, Z).i>. 



SIR, 



A. BOUT 2 o'clock, P. M. on Wednefday the 23d of 

 May, a clond, which had been feveral hours collc(5ling in the 



weft and north, came np with a brilk wind and heavy claps 



of 



