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In the afternoon of June a very black clpud 
appeared in the vwnd, which was, I believe, nearly 
M.' E. A little before four, a gentle rain, attended 
with flight thunder, fell, juft* fuftrcrcnt to wet the 
furface of the ftreets, &c. But the wind blowing 
from the northward, the wall of the college fronting 
the fouth. remained perfectly, dry^ About half hour 
paft four, came a terrible flafti of lightening, at- 
tended at the fame inftant by a violent clap.of thun- 
der. 'The lightening was of a remarkably ‘red co- 
lour, and at the inftant of the flafh, every body, for 
a conliderable diftance round the fpot where the 
damage was done, felt and complained of an intenfe 
heat j feveral people were cither forcibly beaten 
down, or fell through fear and furprize. Some have 
told me, they thought themfelves in the middle of 
fire. 
Whether the rain- had in fome degree difperfed 
the eledlrical matter, which was colleded again by 
the attradion of the metal in the windowsj whether 
it came in different ftreams, or one great one which 
divided itfelf, I fhall not pretend to fay j but it en- 
tered into the fouth fide of Pembroke college in four 
different places at the fame inftant. I fhall give you 
an exad account of the effeds of it in each room, 
A chimney which fronted the S. was beaten down, 
and looked exadly as if it had been cut off in the 
fhaft, about 1 2 feet from the top. In the garret to 
which the chimney belonged, there is a lath and 
plaifter wall running on each fide the fire-place, for the 
convenience of the room, fupporting a kind of dormer 
roof. At the end of this wall, was a ftrong oak poft, 
which I obferved afterwards was full of nails. This 
poft. 
