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I have invented the abovefaid Preparation through 
my own Speculation, and with great Pains, without 
the Affiftance of any Man living: I have made fre- 
quent Experiments of ir^ and do now communicate it 
. very freely and readily. • \ . 
iv/ An Account of what happened' from Thunder in 
Carmarchenfhire5 partly had from the Woman s 
Mouth that fujfered by it^ partly from ivhat ivas 
ohferyed by others^ communicated to the ^yal So* 
cietyy by John Eames, F. S. as he received 
. it in a Letter from Mr. Evan Davies. 
P E N C A R REG^ Saturday December 6, 
In the Afternoon of the fame Day there happen- 
ed terrible Thunder and Lightning, which alarmed the 
whole Neighbourhood^ and about four of the Clock of 
the fame Evening, or thereabouts, as the Wife of one 
PVilVtam Grtjf. Morgan of the faid Parifh, was car-, 
rying a Pail of Water into the Houfe, being no fooner 
come over the Threfhold into a fmail Entry 'that leads 
towards the Fire, there broke fuch a violent Clap o]^ 
Thunder, after its Forerunner (Lightning) that fhe and 
three of her Children were very furprizingly ftruck 
dead, and inftantly bereaved of their Senfes, that they 
Jay (they know not how long) miferable and ghoft- 
ly Monuments of the terrible Shock, being the moft 
difmal Sight that was ever known in thofe Parts; and 
I think, by the Report (if my Memory fails me not) 
they lay weltring in their Blood, before they recover-’ 
ed, and were able to creep to the Bed, till the next 
Neighbo ur happened to come in (the Husband being 
a then 
