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(at n) ; and being fomewhat fpent, when it reach’d 
the hall (7), carried out the windows; moved not 
fome Delft bafons, which were in the fouth window, 
but forced the door of a beaufet (14), at the end of 
the hall, an inch and a half inwards ; and fhook the 
eaftern wall of the houfe to the very foundation. 
I propofed only to lay before you the matter of 
fa’dt, in the order of time, place, and degree, as it 
happen'd ; but I cannot help admiring the different 
motions, lhapes, and effects, of this lightning. 
The clouds over Moelfra hill, and the village of 
Trythal (a fpace of a mile and a half) were fo hea- 
vily charg’d with lightning, that here they broke, 
both the firih and the fecond time, and the thunder- 
claps were within a few minutes of one another, as 
being produced but by two portions of one and the 
fame congeries. 
The general tendency of this lightning was as the 
direction of the wind at that time ; that is, from the 
north-weft to the eaft, but where the principal ex- 
plofions were (as at the hill, and the houfe) many 
branches fpread off in all directions. 
Nor were the fhapes, in which it operated, lefs 
different than its motions. Sometimes, as it appeared 
to me at Ludgvan, it was pointed as a dart ; in fome 
places edg’d as a fcythe, now but one thin fheet or 
ftream, then two or three, and then one again. Now 
it fell as feveral feparate balls of fire ; but upon the 
houfe as a large gufh, or torrent. 
It was all fire, yet cf different powers, according 
to the impregnation of its feveral portions. Subtil 
and penetrating as the ele&rigal fire, it affeefted, 
fhock’d, and permeated, all the human frame. Some 
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