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the giithng in thofe parts being defed:ive. . A 
number of china plates, glaflcs, &c. were broken. 
On the loweft (helf was a quart drinking-glafs, which 
had long ftood there, inverted. It was probably in 
fome degree faftened to the Ihelf by the paint. This 
glafs was alrhoft reduced to duft, a great deal of 
which was found on the uppermoft fhelf of all. This 
was, I prefume, owing to the fudden expanfion- of 
the air within i and to the fame caufe it muft be at-, 
tributed, that the tops of the canifters were taken 
off.^ The tea-fpoons were found difcoloured and 
black j but Mr. Collins recolleded, that a fmall drop 
of mercury from a broken barometer was left in the 
beaufet, which no doubt difcoloured the filver. The 
window fronting the quadrangle to the N. had every 
pane of glafs in it forced^ outwards, and broke to 
pieces; the cafement, which was open,, efcaped un- 
hurt. The lead belonging to each pane was bent 
outwards exactly in the middle, but there were no 
figns of fire here ; and indeed it is probable, that 
the lightening reached no farther than the beau- 
fet. The window was undoubtedly blown outwards 
by the fudden expanfion of the air, from the intenfe 
heat on the other fide of the room. A young gentle- 
man, who flood in his window, was almolt blown 
down by this fudden guff of wind. It muft not be 
forgotten, that a painter was at work in this room 
when the accident happened. He was providentially 
at the window, on the other fide of the fire-place 
trom that w^hich the lightening came in at. His 
.account is, that he felt an intenfe heat; faw, as he 
thought, fire running all round him in circles; that 
he had a ftroke on the fhoulder, w'hich beat him 
down. 
