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a few inches of air to the ftriking rod of the clock, 

 in which, near the end, it melted a large fpot, 

 whence it was conducted by the work of the clock 

 to the upper part of the pendulum, in the axis of 

 which it melted another' large fpot, and defcended 

 by the rod parting over the ball, which it melted in a 

 mod: remarkable manner in fix or feven places (per- 

 haps upon the ball it might accumulate, and, for 

 want of a proper conveyance, break out in different 

 parts of it) and quitted it at the bottom of the nut, 

 which is melted in three places, and will accom- 

 pany this paper. Here the electricity leaped through 

 eight inches of air, or paiTed in conductors of the 

 word kind, dry brick"and wood (with a confiderable 

 cavity between them), till it reached the frame of a 

 window, over the doors, where it broke the ceiling, 

 and burnt the wood to a coal. Here it met with the 

 point of a nail, driven upward into the window frame 

 as a fecurity to the center bar. The point of this 

 nail is melted off, I fuppofe, full half an inch ; it 

 was alfo melted in two large fpots on the oppofite 

 fides near the head. My friend Mr. Jones drew it 

 from the bar, &c. This gentleman was alio fo obliging 

 as to take down a fketch of the window, and an out- 

 line of the parts affected of the building. [SeeTab.VII.T 

 The nail is now in the cuftody of Mr. Nairne. The 

 lightning paffed down the aforementioned bar, and by 

 a bent iron (in contact; with both), into another bar, 

 whofe point (which was greatly melted) came much 

 nearer the upper bolt of the door. The lead-work, 

 from the point of the bar was melted, and a 

 board nearly in contact with the flaple of the bolt 

 much blacked by the parting of the electricity. 



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