Dr. Lathrop’s account of the effects of lightning. 87 
or passed out at the breach now mentioned, is, and must remain prob- 
lematical ; but in narrating the effects 1 will suppose this breach in 
the chimney. was the place of entrance. Part of the fluid passed down 
by the chimney to the next chamber, bursting off the wood work 
from the masonry ; and from thence to the store below, and into the 
cellar, leaving the marks of its passage all the way. In the second 
chamber the fluid was divided; part of the charge passed down by 
the chimney to the cellar in the nearest course, and part took a bell 
_ wire, which it followed, making two right angles; then passing 
through another chamber, and. down to the front TBR: where it burst 
through the door into oe strect. 
Mr. Murray’stho rated from Wass een Be tarts. 
ward by a tate not more eden ett or nine inches. In the second 
story of this house, which is occupied by Mr. Bullard, there is a 
breach in the wall, nearly opposite to the chimney of Mr. Murray’s 
house, and the wood work, from the breach down to the cellar, is, in 
many places, Bacal, much a, | 
pied | y Mr. Bullard, and the next at the 
cadetinyrard, cere is a P pasmape way ef twelve or fourteen feet down a 
wharf. Capt. Barns, who occupies this house, supposed from the 
pemncataes eas that the house must have been struck ; but on €x- 
tion no effects of the explosion could be found, except a small 
bole: just under the cornice, over the fire place inthe chamber. Over 
this fire place Capt. Barns had hung a picture of the late President 
Washington, the frame of which was newly guilt and burnished. A 
stream of fluid passed from the small hole above gee go to nae up- 
per corner of the picture, which was just under it. Me the 
al, and leaving a dusky appearance on the paper, it went off at the low- 
er corner, eet, passing through a small hole into the breast 
work ; and coming out again between the wood work and the stone 
