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Under the corniche, the lightning defcended only 
by leaping from one iron to another; and at every 
leap its force feems to have been weakened, and at 
hit to have been quite difiipated. 
On examining the infideof the deeple beginning 
fiom the top, the fird effedt of the lightning that ap- 
pears is a hole in the done work at B, beginning im- 
mediately above an iron bar which ferved to fupport 
the top of the window or opening, and running up- 
wards towards the two crofs iron bars : this, when 
viewed from the outfide of the church, is feen to have 
fpread round mod: of the lower part of the fpire, 
fo that it feems in great danger of falling. 
The next ftroke is about four feet below : at this 
place four iron bars lie horizontally acrofs the fpire, 
and are tied together by chain bars which areinclofed 
in the donework : where the end of one of the crofs 
bars is inferted in the done, the lightning has burd 
open the hole defcribed at C, and, when the fame is 
viewed at the outfide, a great part of the corniche ap- 
pears to be broken off. 
At D, where the two iron bars ferving to fupport 
the top of the windows meet and are joined together, 
the lightning accumulated in them has broken off 
the pier by which they were inclofed. 
At Fig 2, a bar of iron, which ferved to fupport the 
top or the window in the fame manner as thofe lad 
mentioned, 21 inches long clear of the donework, 
and half an inch thick, is broke and bent into the 
polition expreffed in the drawing; and the dones 
immediately above it are Shattered and disjointed. 
The fills of two windows of this dory are torn od~ 
from iron bars which lay beneath them. 
At 
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