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bcaufct, upon which was likewife placed a china howdy 
that vvas^ crack’d ; and there was moreover fuch 
fnaking in the houfe, that the fhock even ftopp’ 
the movement of an Englilh clock, or pendulum, 
which was in an adjoining room. At firft it was not 
known wdiether the windows of Mr. Richman’s 
cnamber had^ been fhut, or open j but it is recol- 
ledled, that, in preparing the apparatus, it is never 
opened ; it would be moreover impracticable, lelt 
tne thread of the expohtor flaould receive any mo- 
tion from the wind or air, which would rudi in.. 
There was no other inflammation happened in the 
houfe. Eut we have found another effedt of the 
force of electricity, or of thunder- bolts, difcovcrable 
by the door-pofts of the houfe j for they were rent 
afunder length-ways, and the door, together with 
that part of the pofts, fo torn away, twirled into the 
porejn The rcafon of which appears to be, be- 
caule one of the above-mentioned chains, that ’were 
caiiicd from the bars at the houfe-top to the expo- 
sitor, pafled very near them ; and the kitchen- door 
bemg at a little diflance off, had a fplinter torn out 
and daflied againfl; a ftair-cafe, that wxnt towards- 
ihe top of the houfe ; fo that part of the eleCtrical 
matter feems to have taken its courfe this way, but. 
without doing any more damage. All the neio-Ju 
bourhood, I may indeed fay the whole ifland, was. 
immediately in an uproar, partly by the relation of 
the engraver and the centinels, and partly by the 
fervants being fent direftly to the friends and ac- 
quaintance of the deceafed. There never w'as a re- 
port of a. misfortune fo fpeedily fpread abroad in 
this city, as this was : every one ran thither, altho’ 
they 
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