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passed along the gutter, which must have been filled with water at 

 the time, to the eastern end of the same, and then down to the earth 

 along an ordinary tinned-iron pipe or conductor, which conveys the 

 water from the gutter to the pavement below. Marks of its passage 

 were observed along the gutter, and particularly near the end next 

 the metallic conductor. The other part of the discharge passed im- 

 mediately downward through the end of the gutter which first received 

 the shock, to the casing of the window below; and was probably thus 

 deflected out of its course by the attraction of the iron hinges and 

 bolts of the shutters. Its course to the ground was further traced 

 along the casings on each side of the front door. The wood was 

 cracked at every place where a nail happened to be in the line of the 

 discharge, and at some places the lightning appeared merely to pass 

 along the surface making a groove in the wood of about one-eighth 

 of an inch in width, and six or seven inches long : several of these 

 grooves were observed on the side casings of the door. Three panes 

 of glass were broken in the window above the door, and the pieces 

 were thrown inward. The entrance within the door was filled with 

 dust, and a strong sulphurous odour was perceptible for an hour or 

 more after. No marks of a discharge were found at the foot of the 

 lightning rod. 



During the storm, several females were alone in the house, and at 

 the time it was struck, three of these were in the front room in the 

 second story, and consequently near the line of the discharge along 

 the gutter. Two were on a bed placed against the partition wall, 

 opposite to the front, and the third female was standing on the floor 

 about eight feet from the front window, with her face to the same. 

 Those on the bed were unaffected; but the one on the floor stated that 

 she felt a sensation on her right ear, as if it had been touched with a 

 live coal ; at the same time she felt a rushing sensation down her 

 side and perceived a flash at her foot, and a forked spark in the air 

 between her and the nearest window. One of the persons on the bed 

 also stated that she saw the forked spark in the air, and that the fe- 

 male on the floor appeared to her for an instant as if surrounded with 

 light. The outside shutters of the window opposite to which the 

 female was standing, were closed, and also one leaf of the shutters of 

 the window farther east. The western window, or that from which 

 the glass was broken, was not in the same room, but in a small ad- 

 joining one, over the main entrance from the front door. The cham- 

 ber door was shut at the time, and no marks of the entrance of the 



