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the rail AB to B, and from thence by the balufter 
B C to C, druck off the corner of the done dep at 
C, without any difcolouring of the ftep ; the piece 
druck off might be three or four pounds weight. 
Part of the lightning, conducted farther from B to 
D along the iron rail was carried by the baluder D E 
to E, and a large piece was ftruck off from the cor- 
ner E of the done dep ; there was no difcolouring 
of the dep. The piece, which I took up in my hand, 
might be three or four pounds weight, and fitted the 
broken corner of the dep exadtly. This iron rail is 
within three feet of a leaden pipe, which comes 
down from the top of the houfe, and is not continu- 
ed to the ground. 
The lightning went up the ead fide of the dreet 
without any effed, till, at about the didance of 70 
yards from the bottom houfe, it druck the dag pave- 
ment near the iron rails of the adjoining houle, and 
broke off a piece of the dag done, weighing, per- 
haps, two pounds 5 there was no difcolouring here, 
but, as in the done deps before mentioned, the ap- 
pearance was as if the done had been broken by the 
blow of a Hedge hammer. One continued leaden 
gutter runs over the eves of thefe houfes on the ead 
dde as well as on the wed fide. 
The effeds of the {hock were very particular on 
fome perfons. A lady in the bottom houfe on the 
ead fide, who had left the room which looks over 
the river, to avoid the lightning, and fat near a win- 
dow which looks diredly up the dreet towards the 
north, fell from her chair ; but her lurprize was fo 
great that fhe cannot fay whether fhe was thrown 
down by the concuffion of the air, or fell by the 
fright. 
