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VII. An Account of a Storm of Thunder and 
Lightning at Norwich, on the 13 th of 
July 1758. By Mr. Samuel Cooper *. 
Communicated by Mr. Jofeph Warner, Sur- 
geon of Guy’s Hofjpital, a?id F. R. S. 
Read Feb. 15, A BOUT four o’clock on Thurfday 
17S9 ' afternoon, July 13th 175-8. a fhort 
but fevere thunder- (torm, with lightning, fell upon 
the top of an houfe handing alone, and belonging to 
a common garden, on the caufeway near SandlingV 
ferry, in the city of Norwich ; llruck off the tiles of 
the roof at the eafl end, to the fpace of a yard or 
two ; burnt a very fmall hole in the middle of a 
lath, in piercing into the chamber, and then darted 
to the north-eaft ; ript off the top of an old chair, 
without throwing it down ; fnapt the two heads of 
the bed-pofts, rent the curtains, drove againft the 
wall (the front of the houfe ftands due north-eaft), 
forced out an upright of a window frame a yard 
long, three inches broad, and two thick ; fmote it 
in a right line into an oppolite ditch, ten or twelve 
yards diftant : then ft ruck down on the wall of the 
chamber, paring oft half a foot’s breadth of its 
plaiftered covering quite down to the floor ; lifted 
up a board of the floor, and leaving an hole of half an 
inch diameter, pierced thro’ by the fide of the main 
# This account is confirmed in almoft every circumfhance by 
another communicated to the Royal Society in a letter from Mr. 
William Arderon, F.R.S. to Mr. Henry Baker, F.R.S. 
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