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him on a fudden full of lightning, but was rather 
frighted than hurt. But this thunder-cloud broke 
about three miles to the weft of this place, in the fide 
of Moelfra hill, in the parifh of Maddern, where the 
marks of it (when I trac’d thern) were as in the fol- 
lowing fketches. 
The firft traces were an incifion, or fcratch, made 
in the turf, about three inches wide, and two deep, 
where the lightning coming up from the fouth -weft 
at A , pafling through the bank B , and ifluing out 
of the bank in three ftreams, which united again at 
C, turn’d away to the north at j D. About ten paces 
to the north of thefe breaches there are more marks of 
the fame kind, but not in the fame direction j for the 
lightning here came from the north-weft, and, pafling 
upwards, I obferved the furrow, which it had made, to 
grow wider, and fomewhat deeper, as it gain’d upon 
the hill, efpecially where it met with bank or ftone ; 
and fome banks were five feet wide, which had their 
tops untouch’d, but were pierced thro’ as with a bullet. 
This fecond furrow was (as all the reft) not in a ftrait 
line, but in a vermicular direction, and with its turn- 
ings led us to a Karn, or ledge of flat rocks, E. 
Here the lightning pafling parallel to the fide of the 
Karn, H, L, came in a direction from weft by north, 
and meeting with a flat rock, F, /, (which in our 
country we call a quoit) {landing on its edge, that 
fouthern part of which, I, direftly oppofed its paf- 
fage, cut off all that end of this quoit at the dotted 
lines, fplit the quoit into two thinner ones, took off 
feveral fplinters, and left large fpots of lulphur (whitifh 
like arfenic) on that fide, whence the fhivers were 
taken off. On the top of this quoit there is a remarkable 
incifion, 
