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You may be allur'd of the Truth of this, having 
myfelf made a good many Trials of the Knives and 
the Forks : How they came by this magnetick 
Power, or how Lightning fhould be capable of com- 
municating luch a Power, is the Quare, 
Decern, 6th, 
1712. 
IX. A further Account of the extraordinary EffeEls 
of the fame Lightning at Wakefield, ©y 
Dr. Cookion. Communicated hy the fame. 
T HIS Storm of Thunder and Lightning hap- 
pen’d the latter End of July , 1731. and not 
only broke the Glafs and Iron Frames of the Crofs- 
Chamber Windows, but at the fame time fplit fome 
Studds in the Corner of a Wood-Houfe ; and paf- 
fing into a Room, fplit likewife a large Deal Box, 
which flood in the South Corner of the Room, 
where the Lightning enter’d, and difperfed a great 
many Dozen of Knives and Forks, which were put 
up in the Box, all over the Room. 
Upon gathering up thefe Knives and Forks, fome 
of them were melted, others fnapp’d in funder ; 
others had their Hafts burnt ; others their Sheaths 
either fmged or burnt • others not ; But what was 
mod remarkable, upon laying them on a Counter 
where there were Iron Nails, Rings, &c. it was ob- 
ferved, that when any of them were taken up, there 
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