0^ the o^ T^huiidcy 4ud 
Lightning, which happened at Mrs. CloCd’s Houfe at 
New-Forge, in theComtjvf Down in\cthnA. on 
the ^tlj of Auguft, 1707. Communiifated hy 
Samuel Molyneiix Eff, Secretary of the Philo- 
fophical Society af Dublin. 
W HEN I w«tit to wait upon this Gentlewoman a- 
bout a Fortnight after, to intorm my f,-lf in all 
the Particulars ot this Extraordinary Accident, Qie then 
told me, That the whole Day was Clofe, Hot and Sul. 
try, little or no Wind ftirring until towards the Even- 
ing ; That there was a fmall Breeze with fome mizlin-v 
Rain,whichlafted about an Hour; That as the Airdark^ 
ned after Sun-fet, fhe faw feveral faint Flaflies of LighN 
ning, and heard fome Thunder- Claps as at a diftance •' 
That between ten and eleven a Clock both were very vi’ 
olent and • terrible, and fo increafed and came on more 
frequent until a little before twelve a Clock ; That one 
Flalh of Lightning ?nd Clap of Thunder came both at 
the fame time lowder and more dreadful than all the reff 
which, as Ihe' thought, (hook aud inflamed the whole 
Houfe; and being fenfible at that Inftant of a violent 
ftrong Sulphureous Smell in her Chamber, which (he did 
not i?srceive bef<»e now, and feeling a thick grofs Du(i 
falling on her Hands and Face as (he lay in Bed, (he con- ^ 
eluded no lefs than that part of her Houfe was thrown 
down by the Thunder, or fetonfireby-the Lightnin°- 
Thatarifing in this Fright, (he call^*! up her family, and’ 
Candles ' 
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