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port, roof, &c. was thrown into the room, to a 
fiderable diftance, and {battered to pieces ; and the 
window fronting the quadrangle to the N. was 
blown outwards. It was at firfi apprehended, that 
this was the only part of the college which was 
ftruck, and that the mifehief done in the other 
rooms was only the effeds of the fame ball (if I 
may call it fo) conduded from this garret to the 
other parts. But I confefs myfelf very doubtful of 
this : for, had that been the cafe, it (hoold feem that 
the diredion of the cledrical matter mud have been 
altered, whereas in every room its courfe was from 
S. W. to N. E. The garret above-mentioned was 
uninhabited. The room underneath in the middle 
dory belongs to the Rev. John Collins, M. A. and 
F ellow of the college, who, mod providentially, was 
out of town. The lightening entered his room at 
a window on the W. fide of the fire-place ; the cafe- 
ment (an iron one) was open, and was little or not 
at all damaged. The window-curtain, with the 
'frame it hung upon, was thrown at lead 20 feet to 
the oppofite corner of the room j the window-feat, 
and all the wainfeoat about it, were fhattered to pieces, 
and carried away in the fame diredion with the cur- 
tain. The door of the bed-chamber, near the win- 
dow, was extremely fcorched, and at the didance of 
a few feet, was a beaufet which was likewife much 
fcorched, and the brafs efcutcheons were all forced 
off. There was in this beaufet fbme valuable china, 
and a quantity of glafles, which fullered much. Some 
of the china had Mr, Collins’s arms fixed upon it, 
and was gilt round the edges j two cups of this kind 
had each two little triangular notches cut in their 
N n 2 rims. 
