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parts of it only fcorched wood, but did not melt iron, 
as with lightning is very common : fome tore the lea- 
ther and cloaths ; fome cut and wounded, and fome 
killed without wound or rent ; and other parts of 
this lightning again, upon flone, wood, leather, cjoaths, 
and flefb, only rufh’d and forc'd with the power of 
air put into a violent agitation. All this happen'd in 
this place, and all in an inftant : and altho’ the 
cloaths were fomewhat findg’d, as well as torn, and 
the young man’s fkin round his waift was alfo fcorch’d, 
yet, from the general effetts of this lightning in both 
places, I conclude, that it was rather l'wift, and irrc- 
fiftibly piercing, than inflammatory. 
The houfe ftands very high, without tree or hill 
near it. I went thither purpofely to examine into the 
circumftances of this melancholy accident ; and, after 
I had talk’d a little .with the farmer and his family, 
and they had all (for my fdtisfadlion) kindly enter’d 
into a detail of the particulars, the tears appeared in 
the eyes of fome > others, even then, tho’ aim oft a 
month after the misfortune, trembled ; and all faul- 
ter’d in their fpeech, and could not go on with their 
ftory, without frequent paufes, I remain, 
S I R, 
Luilgvan, Feb. 2, 
1753 - 
Your moil obedient fervant, 
Wm. Borlafe. 
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