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ever remember to have met with) either to drive my 
chair back three feet, or elfe I ftarted fo much back 
at the light and noife, I am uncertain which ; all I 
could recoiled!; was, that the room, at once, was full 
of flame, and immediately not fo; and that I was 
moved three feet from the table, how, I could not 
tell. A little head-ach was the only ill confequence. 
More furious ftill was the thunder-ftorm, on the Thunder 
i ith of January laft, which fell upon the church and at 
tower of Breag, about feven miles eafl: of this place, j a T g i\, 
of which I was favoured with the following account, 1762. 
in a letter, dated February 10, from the Reverend 
Mr. Henry Uftick, vicar of that pariih. 
“ On Monday, the nth of laft month, about a 
cc quarter pafl: four P. M. the barometer as low as 
tc 28, the wind blowing hard at fouth-weft, on a 
il fudden it grew very dark, and a fhower of hail, 
“ not remarkably large, followed, accompanied with 
“ the fierceft flafli of lightning, and the moh vio- 
“ lent exploflon of thunder, I ever faw or heard. 
<c The lightning and thunder were almoft inftanta- 
“ neous j fo that if the motion of found be about a 
<c thoufand feet in a fecond, the diftance of the cloud 
cc from us could be but very little. My fervant, who 
<c happened at that time to be in the fields, was ftruck 
“ to his knees, but felt nothing like an ele&rical 
“ fhock, ran in immediately, in a great fright ; faid, 
“ he faw the lightning fall on the tower, and fome- 
“ thing like a black fmoke arife from it; and believed, 
“ that one of the pinnacles was thrown down. I went 
“ to the church-town, [about two hundred paces from 
“ the vicarage-houle] to examine what damage had 
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