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ftruck the dairy window, melted the lead, and burnt 
the glafs where it penetrated, and fet the window- 
frame on fire. From thence it darted in a line from 
S. W. to N. E. downward, made a large hole in a 
plaiftered partition near the floor into the barn, flut- 
tered a large paving rag-fione in pieces, and tearing 
up the ground, I fuppofe, funk into the earth. The 
elms were affected with the lightning, particularly 
that neareft the houfe, from the top of which to the 
root appeared large furrows in the mofs, which grew 
on the bark, in fome places in an irregular fpiral, 
but for the moft part in a perpendicular line ; and 
from the root of it the ground was torn up in fur- 
rows, as if done with a plough-fhare, about fix feet 
long, the furrows gradually leffening according to their 
diftance from the tree. All this was done inftanta- 
neoufly. How amazingly fwift, fubtle, and power- 
ful is the force of lightning ! I am. 
Reverend Sir, 
Your moft obedient Servant, 
James Dyer. 
A Letter from the Rev. Mr. Milles on the fame 
SabjeEf. 
A B O'U T four of the clock on Sunday afternoon, 
the fame day that the lightning flruck the farm- 
houfe at Bucklawren, it fell upon another houfe 
called Pelyne, in the parifh of Lanreath, about fix 
miles diftant. The houfe fronts the eaft. The 
chimney, which is at the north end, is cracked, and 
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