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IV. A Letter from Mr, Jof. Nelfon, concerning the 
EjfeHs of the ahoVementlvied Storm of Thunder- 
and Lightning at Colchefter. 
Colchefier^ July 26, 1708. 
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H a V I N G taken notice of the Strange Effecls of ’ 
Thunder you Publillied for the Months of Jam- 
ary and Lehr nary laft, tlie like was ftrange in this Town 
o^i Colchefler. On J(ily 16 die Veneris 1708, about Eight 
of the Clock at Night (the greater part of the After- 
noon being Cloudy, but more thick toward Night, with' 
Thunder at a diltance for above an Hour before, and 
much Lightning) 1 heard a Thunder-Crack fo loud, as 
if it were clofe to me, (the like I never heard before;) at 
which time the Thunder and Lightning broke into 
Mr. Jojhaa I\jngh Houfc, at the Sign of the. Hart in 
Maudiin-fireet in Colchefier^ beginning at the South fide 
thereof at the Gable-end, breaking leveral Roof- Tiles, 
and near 20 other, as at f in the Figure^ continuing its 
Courfe Per-pendicular, and in a ffrait Line (the only 
Motion that feems confiflent with fuch Violence, which 
it feems was otherwife in the. Gentlewomans Houle in 
Ireland') it went into a Lean-to, and lighting on a 
bunching out of the Wall at it entered into the Strong- 
Beer Buttery thro' the Laths, and forced a Cork put of 
the lower Tap-hole of a Butt, to theLofs of fome GaL 
Ions of Beer; in its way at a, it fhiver’d a Stud about 
three Inches Square, fo that one’ fide remain’d mail’d to 
Laths, yet not mucli .thicker, than a Lath, andalfo brake 
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