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any particular Part of her Body ? lire replied, flic 
was ftruck all over alike. 
But the moft remarkable, tho’ the leaft terrible 
EfFeft, appeared on the Frame of a Pannel of Wain- 
fcot, about five Feet long, and about one and a 
half wide, in the Parlour fronting the Eaft : On 
this Pannel a Landfcape is painted, and the Mould- 
ing belonging to it had been gilt, but on the laft 
painting the Room, the Gilding was cover’d with 
the fame Paint: That which cover’d the gilt Mould- 
ing was flripped off in irregular ragged Streaks 
throughout, fo that the Gilding appeared as frefh as 
it may be thought to have look’d when it was 
painted at firft : And as the Gilding does not feem 
to have been affe&ed, fo neither does the Paint ap- 
pear to have been crack’d any-where, but where the 
Gilding lay under. 
If it be fuppofed, that the Lead in the Paint was 
melted by the Lightning, it will be difficult to ac- 
count for it, that it fhould not at all affeEl the 
Paint contiguous with that which was upon the 
Gilding 5 tho’ we fuppofe a Refiftance to have been 
made by the Leaf-Gold, and to have contributed 
to the producing the mention’d Effe&s. But fear- 
ing I have been already too prolix, I ask Leave to 
fubferibe myfelf, with the greateft Refpeft, 
SIR, 
Tour and the Royal Society, T 
Tooting, June 23 . 
1748, mojl humble and moft obedient Servant , 
H. Miles. 
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