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o-reafy part only being carried away. The head of 
die top-gallant-mad, from the rigging upwards to the 
fpindle, was entire, as was alfo its heel, for the 
lightening did not touch the heel, but milled the 
whole both of top-gallant-maft and top-mad, that 
lay betwixt the cap and upper end of the greafy part 
of the mail. Of the top-mad great pieces were 
carried out, of many feet in length, and 9 or 10 
inches in thicknefs, and this on different fides of the 
mad, for the whole length of the greafy part. From 
the top of the main-mad to the upper end of that, 
which is covered with turpentine, there was no da- 
mage; but, from thence downwards, the cheeks 
were darted off from the middle part, and pieces 
taken out winding adant down the mad, and out of 
the fir part many feet in length, and 6 and 7 inches 
deep, and near the upper deck a piece as laige as the 
body of a man, and 11 or 12 feet in length. 
I imagine, that the vapour having infinuated ltfelf 
into the rents and cracks of the mad, takes fire, and 
expanding itfelf every way, is the occafion of pieces 
of the mad being carried to the mod didant parts or 
the fhip ; and, as a proof of this, the oak cheeks 
above-mentioned, though extremely well fixed to 
the middle part of the mad, which was of fir, by 
fpikes and bolts, which were clinched, they having 
fhrunk, and thereby having left the jointure a little 
open, had made way for the vapour to infinuate lt- 
felf, which might be the occafion, that the cheeks were 
darted off at the lower part, and the rope, wherewith 
they were woolded together to the middle part in 
four different places, with 12 turns of 2 £ inch 
rope in circumference, were burd all to pieces. 
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