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down, and made him lenfelefs for fome time; when 
he recovered, the room was full of fmoke, and fmelt 
flrongly of brimftone. Near the window, where 
the lightening entered this room, it made a round 
hole through the floor into the ground-room, inha- 
bited by Mr. Williams, a young gentleman of this 
college, who had gone out but a very little time be- 
fore.. Whether the force which defcended from the 
upper room might contribute to the damage done in^ 
this, cannot be well afcertained ; it is, however, ap- 
parent, that the ele€lrical matter entered this room 
from without, jufl: in the fame manner, and in the 
fame dire<Siion, as in Mr. Collins’s chamber. Near, 
one corner of the iron window-frame, a round hole, 
about an inch in diameter, was flruck- through the 
flone-work, as if made with a bullet. A ftrong iron 
bar in the window was forced into the room, and 
carried to fome diftance. The hinges of the window- 
flautters, and ’the wall they touched, were difcoloured, 
jufl; as if gun-powder had been fired upon them. A 
nail happening to be in the ftone, on the fide of the 
chimney, the lightening drove it with great force in- 
to the folid freeflone, making a, round- hole toacon- 
fiderable depth.- The window-curtain here was 
thrown to the fame diftance,. and in the fame direc- 
tion, as in the room above, and- pretty nearly the 
lame efleds appeared j only the wainfcotand v/indow- 
feat being, I think, made of a different kind of board,! 
were not Ihivered into fmall pieces, as in the room 
above, but were thrown in large fplinters, and with 
great force, about the room ; Ibme of them broke 
the window and a large looking-glals on ihe oppofite 
iide, and more than one flew end- ways like an ar- 
I row. 
