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IX. Account of a rema7'kable l^himder Storm 
In a Letter from the Rev. Anthony Wil- 
liams, ReEior of St. Keverne, in Corn- 
wal, to the Rev. William Borlafe, D.D. 
F. R. S. 
Dear Sir, 
Keverne, Aug. 27, 1770. 
Read Feb. 7, T HAVE received yours, which, I muft 
confefs, I ought to have anrwered 
much fooner. 
For leveral days before the thunder ftorm which 
fell on St. Keverne fpire and church, on Sunday the 
18th day of February laft, the wind was very hard 
at North and North Weft, accompanied with violent 
fhowers of hail, which had done fome damage to 
the roof of the church, and many houfes in the 
church-town. On the Sunday morning above-men- 
tioned, the wind being at North-weft, from five 
o’clock during almoft the whole day the wind was 
exceftive hard j and about fix, I faw fome few 
faint flafhes of lightning, which, as the day came 
on, if it continued, became imperceptible. The 
weather being fo bad, prevented a great nurnber of 
people from coming to church, which in all human 
probability was a happy circumftance j for, about a 
quarter 
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