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fo powerful an invitation, to an edifice thus partial- 
larly fituated. 
8 - Q I N C E the former part of this 
^ • . paper was communicated to the 
Royal Society, that is, on the 5th of Auguft, 1764, 
1 received the following account from captain Dib- 
den, . commander of a merchant fhip, who fays, 
that in the year 1759, he was taken by the French, 
and carried prifoner to Fort Royal in Martinico. That 
in removing him from thence fome time after, and on 
foot to St. Pierre, which is about 20 miies, his con- 
ductor, or guard, hopped at a fmall chapel five miles 
from the laft place, to fhelter themfelves from the 
heavy rain which fell during a violent thunder ftorm. 
That the chapel had no fteeple or tower belonging 
to it, but flood upon an eminence with three or four 
poor low houfes near it. That foon after they were 
thus Sheltered, a violent flafh of lightening ftruck 
two foldiers dead, who had been leaning againfl the 
wall of the chapel between two buttreffes,* and not 
far from the reft of the company j they being all on 
the leeward fide of the chapel. 
That it made an opening in the wall about four 
feet high, and about three feet broad, and in that 
part only againft which they refted. 
That captain Dibden, along with other perfons, 
entered at this hole immediately after, to fee if any 
other damage had been done to the chapel. That 
they obferved a fquare bar of iron near the hole, and 
upon the ground, about four feet long, and one inch 
end a quarter thick , making an angle with the wall, 
as they fuppofed, to fupport the upper part of an in- 
clined tombftone, which was alfo thrown down and 
Kk 2 broke 
