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there was not the leaft Cioud but lamentably affe&ed 1 
her, and that at a eoniicierabie diftance ; but by her 
Shrieks it teemed more or left, according to the bignefs 
and nearnefi of the Clouds. The Thunder there is at- 
tended often with fatal circumftances : I was with my 
Lord Howard of Effingham the Governour, when they 
brought word that one Dr. A. was killed therewith, af- 
ter this manner : He was fmoaking a Pipe of Tobacco, 
and looking out at his Window when he was (truck 
dead, and immediately became £0 ftifF, that he did not 
fall, but ftood leaning in the Window, with the Pipe in 
his Mcuth in the fame pofture he was in when ftruck : 
But this I only deliver as Report, tho' I heard the fame 
Account from feveral, without any contradid-ing it, 
Thefe things are remarkable, that it generally breaks in 
at the Gable end of the Houfes, and often kills Per* 
fons in, or near the Chimneys Range, darting moft fierce- 
ly down the Funnel of the Chimney, more efpecially if 
there be a Fire, (Tfpeak here confufedly of Thunder and 
Lightning) for when they do any Mifchief, the Craflt 
and Lightning are at the fame inftamt , which muft be 
from the nearnels of the Cloud. One time when the 
Thunder fplit the Maft of a Boat at James Town, I few. 
it break from the Cloud, which it divided in two, and 
(eem'd as if it had (hot them immediately a Mile afunder, 
to the Eye : It is dangerous when it Thunders (landing 
in a narrow pafiage, where there's a thorough pafiage, or 
in a Room betwixt two Windows ; flib' feveral have 
been kill'd in the open Fields. 5 Tis incredible to rellhow 
it will ftrike large Oaks, lhatter and fliiver them, fome- 
times twifting round a Tree, fbmetimes as if it ftruck. 
the Tree backwards and forwards. I had noted a fine 
fpreading Oak in James fawn Ifland, in the Morning f 
law it fair and fiouriihing, in the Evening I obferved'alt 
the Bark of the Body of the Tree, as if it had beerr arti- 
ficially peePd off, was orderly fpread round the Tree, in 
