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XIV. An Account of the EffeSis of a Storm 
of \ Thunder and Lightnings in the Pu- 
rifies of Looe and Lanreath, in the County 
of Cornwall, on the 27th Day of June, 
1756. Communicated to the Rev. Jeremiah 
Milles, D D. F.R.S. in two Letter j, one 
from the Rev. Mr. Dyer, Minifier of Looe, 
and the other from the Rev. Mr. Milles, 
Vicar of Duloe, in Cornwall. 
Read Feb. 24, /^\N Sunday the 27th of June laft it 
grew on a fudden as dark as a 
winter evening : foon after, the lightning began to 
flafh, and the thunder to roar. The claps were near, 
and extremely loud ; and the lightning was more 
like darting flames of fire, than flafhes of enkindled 
vapour. Happily no damage was done to the town 
of Looe, which lies very low j but at Bucklawren, a 
village fituated on the top of a hill, about two miles 
from hence, a' farm-houfe was fhattered in a mold 
furprifing manner. The houfe fronts the fouth. 
The windows of the hall and parlour, and of the 
chambers over them, which are in the front of the 
houfe, are fafhed. The dairy window is the only 
one on the weft fide of the houfe. The chimnies 
are on the north fide ; and at the fouth-weft corner 
there is a row of old elms on a line with the front, 
the neareft of which is ten feet diflant from the 
houfe. The lightning feems to have had a direction 
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