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rdf ; I flattered myfelf you would excufe the trrouble 
I lhould give you in a perufal of an account of this 
very ftrange, tho’ hitherto unnoticed, phenomenon. 
I am. Sir, with the greateft refped and efteem. 
Your mofc humble Servant, 
Thomas Thomlinfon. 
XXV. An Account of the EffeEls of Lightning 
upon the Steeple and Church of Leftwithiel, 
Cornwall ; in a Letter to the Right Ho- 
nour able the Earl of Macclesfield, P ref- 
dent of the R.S. By Mr . John Smeaton, 
F. R. S. 
Read April 21, XAnuary 15. 1757. a hout five o 1 clock 
17 S' 7 ’ J in t h e evening, returning home from 
the Edyftone works near Plymouth, I obferved four 
flafhes of lightning, within the fpace of fix or feven 
minutes, towards the weft ; but heard no noife of 
thunder *. A few days after, I was informed, that 
the fame evening the lightning had fhattered the 
^church of Leftwithiel in a very furprifing manner. 
The 1 ft of March I was at Leftwithiel: they 
had then begun to repair the damages ; but had not 
made fuch a fuch progrels, but that the principal 
effects were equally obfervable as at firft. I obferved, 
and was informed, as follows : 

* Pittance about thirty miles. 
At 
