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The firft thunder-clap was fucceeded, in lefs than 
a quarter of an hour, by another, which broke at a 
village, in the parifh of Gullval, called Trythal, 
about a mile and half to the fouth-weft of Moelfra 
hill, and was attended with the following melan- 
choly^ accidents ; which, that you may the better 
apprehend, I have added a plan of the houfe, 
fhewing the different ftations of the perfons who 
fuffered. r 
Thomas Olivey, a farmer of good fubftance and 
repute, was returned from the field, about a quarter 
before twelve o’ clock, and had all his family round 
him in the kitchen, except his daughter, who was in 
the hall. There was a pan over the fire in the kitchen- 
chimney, full of boiling water. The farmer was fit- 
ting by the fire (at i ), and his wife on a bench before 
it (at 2) ; their only fon, 22 years of age, was hand- 
ing at the window (8), when it lighten’d much, and 
the firft clap of thunder (fpoken of before) follow’d. 
This clap of thunder was fo violent here, that nothing 
was remember’d equal to it ; and the back-door of 
the kitchen (6), which open’d to the north, quiver’d. 
The farmer called to his fon, and defired him not to 
hand fo near the window, left the lightning fhould 
hurt his eyes ; upon which the young man removed 
from the window, backwards, into the corner of the 
room, and fat down (at 3). .For this, the apprentice- 
boy, laughing at him, was chid by his mafter, and 
luckily for him, fent out of the room, to take care of 
fomething without-doors. The lightning came from 
the weft north-weft, and, failing upon the ftack of the 
kitchen-chimney, which was about four feet fquare, 
and as much in height, of hew’d ftonc, carried it 
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