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VI. An Account of a Pcrfon kill'd by Lightning 
at Worcefier, communicated in a Letter to the 
Puhlijbtr^ by R. Btaid, M. D, S. S. 
7 he following Account wai given to a Gentleman at the 
time the xiffair happened ; Lut not knowing whether it 
deferv d your Confi derat ion, I def err’d fending it till 
you were pleas'd to defire it. 
tVorcefeTi-, June i r, 17^4. 
\ 7 E had lad Night continu’d Li'ghtning iti tlie Ead 
V V from Eight o’ clock to Tv^ eive ; the Weather 
for fome time belore having been very fuitry, the Wind 
at N. E. and the Barometer at fettled. Fair. This Mor- 
ning the Mercury funk, and the hky became more 
Cloudy and Temperate, except a few hot Gleams ; at 
T'A’o in the Afternoon, leveral fierce vSho-A^ers te!h 
attended with Flafl’ies of Lightning and Clap:? of Thun- 
der, that Hill approach'd nearer us : Between Two and 
Three, a Flafli came fo violently upon me, fucceeded 
fo very quick by a low, unufual, dreadful Sound, that 
I immediately went to the door, fearing (orae Mil- 
chief near. J was fcon call’d to an Officer’s Lady f a- 
ged about 18, and breeding) killd by it in the atijoyn- 
ing Street. I found her yet warm; and that flie had 
furvived the Stroke for 6 or 7 Minutej. The Fire-Marks 
they fhew ’d me, were Streaks or a Copper-Colour bran- 
ched from the Lett Shoulder adl-over cite' Jlhorax, and 
Lntcr'pcrkd here and there w ith irregular which 
gave occafion for that Conceit pubiiih’d m our* News, 
, that 
