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This room contained a large heap of oats, and an* 
other of beans, a foot-path, as it were, being referved 
next the partition, where the afcending wire ran, 
which was covered with much duft and ftrap-gdinp 
grains of the corn. — Here again I employed the mag- 
nets, Mr. Tawke affifting, and collected a consider- 
able quantity of melted particles, not only from the 
floor, joints and projections of the fkirting-board, but 
from the holes and chafms in the broken plaiftering, 
where-ever we could introduce the magnets, and 
that at the diftance of 4 or y feet from the wire-place. 
Tbefe you have in the box N° 4. 
Hence I fufpeCted, that granule t might be found 
among the oats : we probed, but to no no purpofe ; 
the heap was too large, and had been moved, by 
fetching away what was w r anted from time to time. 
However, we carried our inquiry to the bare floor, 
quite acrofs the heap, at 10 feet diftance, and, in the 
joints or feams, found of very fine particles a Suffi- 
cient quantity to prove, that they were violently dif- 
fufed to a great diflance. 
From thefe houfes the lightning feems to have 
tended towards the N. E. for in that direction, at the 
diftance of about 200 yards, and not fo far from my 
own houfe, Captain William Provoft was ftruck 
thereby, Standing in his own entry, and rendered 
almoft fenfelefs and fpeechlefs for fome hours, and, 
for Several days, was much afflicted with a ftupor, 
giddinefs, and vomiting, and retained a conftant and 
Strong tafte of Sulphur in his mouth and throat. His 
child had hold of his cloaths, and his wife was near 
him ; but the Stroke appears to have been above the 
child, as it feems to have ftruck him about the head. 
No other damage was done here. 
Mrs. 
