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of twenty or thirty feet. No part of the afore- 
mentioned long fmall wire, between the clock and 
the hammer, could be found, except about two 
inches, that hung to the tail of the hammer, and 
about as much, that was faftened to the dock ; the 
red: being exploded, and its particles diffipated in 
fmoke and air, as gun-powder is by common fire, 
and had only left a black fmutty track on the plaifter- 
ing, three or four inches broad, darkeft in the mid- 
dle, and fainter towards the edges, all along the 
deling, under which it pafled, and down the wall. 
Thefe were the effeds and appearances : on which I 
would only make the few following remarks ; •viz. 
1. That lightning, in its pafTage through a build- 
ing, will leave wood to pafs as far as it can in metal, 
and not enter the wood again till the conductor of 
metal ccafes. 
And the fame I have obferved in other inftances, 
as to walls of brick or ftone, 
2. The quantity of lightning, that pafled through 
this fteeple, mufl: have been very great by its effeds 
on the lofty fpire above the bell, and on the fquarc 
tower all below the end of the clock pendulum, 
3. Great as this quantity was, it was conduded 
by a fmall wire and a clock pendulum, without the 
leafl: damage to the building fo far as they extended, 
4. The pendulum rod being of a fufficient thick- 
nefs, conduded the lightning without damage to it- 
felf } but the fmall wire was utterly deftroyed. 
y. Though the fmall wire was itfelf deftroyed, yet 
it had conduded the lightning with fafety to the 
6, And 
