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the room, and feme mouldings from the wainfeot ; 
broke the glaflfes and Delft ware in the boauffet ; 
Hiivered the (helves of a bottle-room ; and, ripping 
off a fmall flock-lock from the door, burfl it open, 
and made its way chiefly thro’ the window, the frame 
of which was moved from the wall, and the glafs 
fhattered to pieces. Near the bottle- room there was 
a hole flruck in the partition-wainlcotting, which 
divides the parlour from the hall, about eight inches 
long and an inch broad : through this crevice the 
lightning entered the hall, which ferves at prefent 
for a kitchen, and meeting with fome pewter in its 
way, it flung it from the fhelf about the room ; 
threw down a large iron bar, that flood in a corner, 
and which feemed to have a trembling and defultory 
motion ; carried the tongs into the chimney, and 
threw a tea-kettle, that flood there, into the middle 
of the floor; moved a large brafs pot out of its 
place, which was under a table ; and then darted 
thro’ the windows, carrying away a pane of glafs 
intire out of the upper fafh to the diftance of many 
feet. The miflrefs of the houfe and her fon were 
fitting at this window. They were the only perfons 
in the houfe, and providentially received no hurt. 
Some part of the lightning found a way between the 
door and door-cafe of the hall. The door is pan- 
nelled : and the lightning, in pafling thro’, penetrated 
into a clofe mortife, and fplit off a large fplinter 
from the outfide of the door, clofe to the tenon. In 
its courfe it left a fmoaky tinge on the wall and tim- 
ber, like that of fired gunpowder. A fulpbureous 
fmell remained in the houfe many hours. Another 
(or probably a part of the fame) flafh of lightning 
flruck 
