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appears to me, that the weather-cock and its appa- 
ratus had the principal (hare in occafioning the great 
mifchief done to the upper part of the fteeple. I 
am of opinion, that the lightning firft took the 
weather-cock and was conduced, without injuring 
the metal or any thing elfe, as low as where the 
large iron bar or lpindle, which is inferted into the 
top of the fteeple, and comes down feveral feet of 
its length, terminates. There the metallic commu- 
nication cealing, part of the lightning exploded, 
cracked and (battered the obelifk, which terminates 
the fpire of the fteeple, in its whole diameter, and 
threw off at this place feveral large peEes of Ioit- 
land (lone, of which this fteeple is built. Here it 
likewife removed a (tone from its place, but not far 
enough to be thrown down. From hence the light- 
ning feems to have rufhed upon two horizontal iron 
bars, which are placed within the building, crofs each 
other, to give additional ftrength to the obelilk, almoft 
at the bale thereof, and not much above the upper 
ftory : here, on the North Eaft and Eaft fide, it exploded 
again at the end of the iron bar, and threw off a con- 
fiderable quantity of ftune. And here, for the fake of 
explanation, I muft obierve, that the fpiie of this 
fteeple, where it rifes above the bell tower, is com- 
pofed of four ftories, befides the obelifk placed over 
them. The lowtft and fecond are of the Tufcan 
order ; the third is Ionic ; and the fourth or upper- 
moft Compofite or Roman. I he ftone piei s of thele 
Rories arc connected together and ftrengthened by 
iron bars placed horizontally near the height ol the 
capitals of the pilafters, and each ftory has only one 
let of thefe bars. From the crofs bars near the bale 
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