water at MedkylsibQUta mile or fomewhat more diftant from 
heace. Two Scholkrs of PFaMam-Collcdgc, being alone in a 
Boac (without a water-man) having newly thruft offfrom fliorc, 
zt Medley, to come homewards, ftandi»g near the head of the 
boat, were prefently with a ftroke of Thunder or Lightning.both 
ftruck off out of the boat into the waterj the one of rhem ftark 
dead^ in whom^ though prefently taken out of the waterfhaving 
been by relatiouj fcarce a minute in it) there was not difcerned 
any appearance of life, fenfc, or motion: the other was ftuck 
faft in the mud^ ( with his feet downwards, and his upper parts 
above water) like a poft not able to help himfelf out s but, be- 
fides a prefect ftonying or numnefs, had no other hurt j but was 
for the prefent fo difturb'd in his fenfes^as that he knew not,ho w 
he came there out of the boat, nor could remember either thun* 
der or lightning, that did effe<3; it : and was very feeble and faint 
upon it J which (though prefently put into a warm bed) he had 
not throughly recovered by the next night ; and whether fincc 
he have or no^ I know not. 
Others in another boat, about i o or 20 yards from thefe ( as 
by their defcription I eftimate ) felt a difturbance and fliaking 
in their boat, and one of them had his Chair ftruck from under 
him,and thrownuponhimibuthad nohurt.Thofe immediately 
made up to the others,and(fome leaping into the water to them) 
prefently drew them either into the boat or on fliore ; yet none 
of them faw thefc two fall into the water(not looking that way J 
but heard one of them cry out for help prefently upon the 
ftroke, and fmelt a very ftrange ftinking fmell in the Airswhich, 
when I asked him^ that told it me, what kind of ftink f he faid^ 
like fuch a Imellj as is perceived upon the ftriking of Flimts to- 
gether. 
He that was dead ( when by putting into a warm bed, and 
rubbing, and putting ftrong waters into his mouth, ^c, no life 
could be brought into him) was the next morning brought to 
town ; where, among multitudes of others, who came to fee,Dr. 
Will^:> Dn Meliington, Dr. Lewer, and my felf, with fomc otherf^ 
went to view the Corps : where we found no wound at all in the 
skin; the faceand neck fwart andblacl?5 butnotmore, than 
might be ordinary, by the fetling of the blood :On the right fide 
of the neck was a little blackifli fpot about an inch long, and 
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