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At the time before- mentioned, the inhabitants 
were alarmed by a violent flafh of lightning, accom- 
panied with thunder fo fudden, loud, and dreadful, 
that every one thought the houfe he was in w T as fall- 
ing upon him ; almoft every one being within doors, 
on account of a violent fhower of rain, which pre- 
ceded the lightning : fo that no body faw or heard 
any thing of the mifchief done to the church, till it 
was obferved accidentally after the fhower. 
The fteeple is carried up, plain and fquare, to 
about 49 feet, with a kind of hate-hone, rough- 
cahed on the outfide ; upon which is formed a very 
elegant odogon Gothic lanthorn about 9 feet high, 
and thereon a hone fpire about 52 f£et height, with 
a fpindle and vane riling about 3 feet above the hone r 
fo that the whole together was about 1 1 3 feet. Each 
face of the lanthorn fmifhes above with a fort of a 
Gothic pediment, with a little pinacle upon each, 
feparated from the body of the fpire. 
I will not affirm, that the lightning entered in at 
the fpindle or vane at top ; but will fuppole it, for 
the fake of methodizing the fads. The vane was 
of plate copper, which being turned round, and 
rivetted, made a focket to turn upon. The fpindle 
did not reach thro’ the focket, but the weight of 
the vane refted upon the top of the fpindle, the top 
of the focket being doled. About the vane were 
many acute angles, and fome almoft fharp ; but I did 
not obferve any pointing diredly upward. The vane 
was much bruifed, which might be crccalioned by 
the fall ; but the focket was rent open, as if it had 
been burft by gunpowder ; and in fuch a manner, 
as I -cannot conceive could be occafioned by the fall. 
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