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water at Medley about a mile or fbmewhat more diltant rrom 
hence. Two Schollars of^W^tfi-Colledge, being aloneina 
1 Boat (without a water-man) having newly t’hruft offfrom ihore, 
; $£ Medley, to come homewards , ftanding near the head of the 
boat, were prefently with a ftroke of Thunder or Lightning, both 
I ftruck off out of the boat into the water, the one of them ftark 
dead, in whom* though prefently taken out of the water; having 
i been by relation, fcarce a minute in it) there was not difcerned 
any appearance of life, fenfe, or motion : the other was ftuck 
faff in the mud ( with his feet downwards, and his upper parts 
; above water) like a poll not able to help himfelf out ; but, be- 
j fides a prefent ftonying or numnefs, had no other hurt; but was 
for the prefent fo difturb’d in his fenfes,as that he knew riot, ho w 
he came there out of the boat, nor could remember either thun- 
der or lightning, that did effecft it : and was very feeble and faint 
upon it • which (though prefently put into a warm bed) he had 
not throughly recover’d by the next night ; and whether fince 
he have or no, I know not. 
Others in another boat, about 10 or 20 yards from thefe( as 
by their defcription I eftimate ) .felt a difturhance and (baking 
in their boat, and one of them had his Chair ftruck from under 
him, and thrown upon him ; but had no hurt.Thofe immediately 
made up to the others,and(fome leaping into the water to them) 
prefently drew them either into the boat or on lliore ; yet none 
of them fa w thefe two fall into the water(not looking that wayj 
but heard one of them cry out for help prefently upon the 
ftroke, and fmelt a very ftrange flunking fraell in the Air; which, 
when I asked him, that told it me, what kind of ftink ? he faid 9 
like fucha fmell, as is perceived upon the ftriking of Flints 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. 
Willis , Dr. Mdlington, Dr. Lower , and my felf, with fome other?, 
went to view the Corps : where we found no wound at all in the 
skin; the face and neck fwart and black, butnotraore 9 than 
might be ordinary, by the fetling of the blood:On the right fide 
of the neck was a little blackifh fpot about an inch long, and 
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