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nghf. She (ays, (he felt the lightning on her arm, 
and had a very odd fenfation like what (he fuppofes 
peop.e feel by the eledrical (hock ; (lie further fays, 
her arm fmelt very ftrong of fulphur for a conlider- 
able time, though (he went out of the houfe im- 
mediately. 
Another lady, who lives on the weft fide of the 
ltreet, in the houfe the roof of which was bulged 
in, as has been mentioned, as fhe fat on the bed 
with a window open behind her, which looks to the 
weft, was thrown off the bed on a child, who fat 
on a chair by the bedfide. The fenfation the {hock 
gave her, was as it were of a blow crofs her {boulders. 
y houfe is on the eaft fide of the ftreet, next door 
but one to that where the fteps were broken and the 
chimney thrown down. I was at home in the fore 
room 011 the ground floor. I felt a greater {hock and 
concuflion in the air than I had ever obferved before 
irom thunder. A gentleman, who was with me, fays, 
what he felt was moft like the fenfation produced by 
the preflure of the water when a man leaps into it. 
EfTex-ftreet, 
June 28, 1764. 
I am, Sir, 
With great relpeft, 
Your moft humble fervant, 
Thomas Lawrence. 
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