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At the bafe of the dome, near nine feet below the 
firft crofs chain, was a fecond. This chain was a 
double crofs conneded at its ends with a circle of 
iron, which was bedded into the whole courfe and 
fattened by melted lead. Here the lightning made 
great ravage, burft and threw off the (tones in which 
the iron circle was bedded, and tore out part of the 
roof of the dome, threw off two pieces of the cor- 
nice and one of the vafes, which was contiguous to it. 
Thefe two pieces of cornice weighed twelve hundred 
pounds. The courfes of flone between the two 
chains, except thofe I juft now mentioned, were not 
injured. 
To what is here faid, I fhall only add, that in no 
part the fteeple was injured, except where the (tones 
were in contact or very near the iron and lead em- 
ployed in its building; and the quantity of (tone 
burft, fpoiled, or lb much damaged as not fit to be ufed 
again, amounts, asl am informed by Mr. Stanes, a 
very honeft and ingenious mafon, who has contracted 
to repair the damage done by the lightning, to not lefs 
than five and twenty tuns. An amazing quantity! 
The above mentioned Mr. Stanes was employed, a 
few years fince, in the repair of the fteeple of St. Mary 
le Bow in Cheapfide, which was injured by a very 
rare and uncommon accident. At its eredion, the 
builders had employed, near the top of the fpire, for 
additional fecurity, feveral iron cramps; the ends of 
which, by being expofed to the weather, became 
rutty, fwelled, and fo much enlarged thereby, as to 
raife the (tones above them, and to defied the top of 
the fpire fix inches from the perpendicular. Danger 
being apprehended from this fituation, the fpire was 
taken 
