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The farmer’s brother was at the end of a long 
table (at 4) in the fame room, and was only flung 
againft the wall, about 3 feet diftant, not hurt. 
Mrs. Olivey’s After was near the back-door (at 6)3 
a plank of this door was ftarted, and beat in : fhe 
was ftruck fenfelefs, and thrown twelve feet off 
againft the fettle (12), which ftood againft the fouth 
wall of the houfe. 
The farmer’s fon was fitting (at 3)3 his coat and 
waiftcoats (for he had two on) were torn into fhreds, 
fo that I could hardly diftinguifh where the pieces 
had formerly join’d 5 his fhirt had a rent two feet 
long down the back, and was fcorch’d 3 his left (hoe 
torn from his foot 3 and the little toe of that foot fo 
near cut off, that it hung but by a bit of (kin 3 and 
he was quite dead. But, tho’ reduced to this lament- 
able condition, as to his exterior, he was not mov’d 
from his feat, nor his face at all chang’d : his dog 
was lying at his feet, dead likewife, but never mov’d. 
The farmer’s daughter receiv’d the fhock in the 
hall (at 7) 5 was ftruck fenfelefs, but revived loon 3 
felt a trembling all over ; her feet tickling, and 
partly benumb’d, and ftiff, as if fleeping 3 but per- 
ceiving in the room a cloud of fmoke, and hearing 
her mother cry, (he made hafte into the kitchen, 
which fire found full of fmoke, flunking like brim- 
ftone. The lightning had left a mark quite crofs the 
clavel of the kitchen-chimney, about half an inch 
wide, in an undulating direction, broke thro’ the par- 
titions of the under-floor, thrown down the (helves, 
carried out all the fouth windows, forced up the 
flair-cafe, blown out the north window (10), mifs’d 
or fpar’d a clock, which ftood dole by the window 
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