this prelent time to admit me to recount : and this 
account you may depend on as authentic, as more 
than an hundred people can teftify, that docked in 
on that, and for feveral days after, to view. If this 
is any- wife fatisfadtory to you, it will give great plea- 
fure to, 
Effe&s of Lightning , in a Letter to Dr. 
Gowin Knight : By Mr. William Moun- 
tains, F. R. S. 
Dear Sir, 
ReadNov. 22 ’^~T~^H E following account of the effedts 
1/)9 ' of lightning, in my neighbourhood, 
I have drawn up for your perufal; and, if it meets 
with your approbation, be pleafed to communicate 
the fame to the Royal Society , or difpofe of it in any 
other manner, as you fliall think proper. 
During the morning of July the 16th laft, was 
much thunder and lightning : about eight o’clock 
was heard an extraordinary loud crack, which feemed 
to me very near, as the large flalh and found were 
aim oft coincident. In a few minutes, there was an 
alarm, 
S I R, 
Your humble fervant, 
Anne Whitfeld. 
XXX. An Account 
S. 
