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Wo^U of 01 Z^mmj^mm W^. ^m^% Cmw^mm tw liei 
B^klfBsr^jroM-ti^^^^ of Good Hope, Ap» 6, ijco. 
- giving oj^ account of his oLfervations on thither movad^ 
ter and Miignetick, Needle in his Voyage thither, 
1 Have not tinie now to give you a particular ac- 
rount of the Thermometer, with the variatioa 
and'.inchnation of the Needle, only in general, that 
riie greateft heig^ht the Spirit did arife to in the Ther- 
mometer, was tvvo divilio.ns below extream hot, 
when we w^ere near the ^Equinoftial 5 and that two 
degrees to the Northward oi the Line, the iNorta 
pbint of the Needle did incline & degrees downward, 
but as we went to the Southwar-d jt was inclined a« 
bo ve 48 degrees upward. 
11. Of an accident hy Thunder and Lightning at Leedes, 
. by Mr Ralph Thoresby. F. R. 
Saturday evening the 27th of Aprif we had a 
pretty fevere ftorm of Thunder and Lightning, 
one clap particularly was very loud, and feem'd to 
me to be very low and near us, and fo it appeared to 
be by the effefts, ¥/hich, tho notiatal, yec fome- 
what remarkable 5 for falling upon a Cottage on the 
^arry Hill (where one Henry Parker lives) it broke 
dawn part , of the Chamber Chimney, and thence 
made its way through a chink or nick in the Floor 
to the lower Room, whereby the Flame thus con- 
traded was either more intenfely hot, or at ieafi: di- 
refted more immediately to a Shelf, where it melted 
feveral holes in two Pewter Difhes 5 it melted alfo, 
and run into little Lumps, feveral places in a Pewter 
Candleftick, andof a Brafs Mortar, yet burnt not 
(bme bits of FringC;, and other Combuftible matters 
within it 5 it burnt alfo fome holes in a Tinn VelTel, . 
and fmutted a white Stone plate it ftood upon, as if 
ifrhad been with Lamp-black, and filled the Room 
with I 
