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I, A Letter from the Rev. Henry Miles 
D. D. F. R. S. to the Prefident, concern- 
ing the Storm ^Thunder, which happen'd 
June 12. 1748. 
SIR, 
Read Jung 23. TT BEG Leave to communicate to you and 
, 74 8 - to t [ ie R 0 y a i Society fome Account of 
the Effects of a Thunder-Storm, on two adjoining 
Houfes, at Stretham in Surrey , the 12 th Inftant, a 
little after 5 in the Morning. 
The preceding Day had been remarkably hot, and 
in the Afternoon very cloudy, with the ufual Indi- 
cations of an approaching Storm, in the Evening. 
At 9 at Night, the Wind Southerly, my Barometer 
flood thus 5 one, which is the moft fenfible, at 29 
Inches - 7 -k 
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the other at 30. The Ther- 
mometers (of Sijfons Conftruction) one without- 
doors, at 43 Degrees, another within, at 49 Degrees 
above o. or the freezing Point. 
At one next Morning, a Perfon apprehenfive of 
the Thunder, upon looking out at Window, was 
furprized to find an unufual clear Sky, every-where 
equal to what is obferved in frofty Weather, or 
after a high Wind, except that in a few Places fome 
Thunder-Clouds fhewed themfelves juft above the 
Horizon. 
At 2 we heard Thunder at a Diftance : At half an 
Hour paft 3, when I got up, I perceived the Storm 
approaching apace from the South, where the Wind 
then was, but the darker Clouds feemed to bear off 
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