REMARKASLE thttndgr-storms 
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Vi! singular. It was observed tliat the day 
close, hot,a. - ' 
and sultry, with scarcely any 
evening, when a breezet came on 
rain, which lasted about an hour. As the 
I,- ■■'er,. sun-set, several faint flashes of light- 
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^ and thunder claps heard, as at a distance ; 
and eleven o’clock they became, in theit 
'’'“lent and terrible, progressively increasing 
and coming on with more frequency, until 
'aii(luj.''^‘’'Sht.. A flash of lightning, and clap of thun- 
n *nore dreadful than all the rest, came simul- 
shook and inflamed the whole house. The 
>- ‘*ig sensible at that instant of 
Stgg|j‘'.S sensible at that instant of a strong sulphu- 
lier u"’ chamber, and feeling a thick gross dust 
1 ^ v,iituiiuci, tUiLi icciiU^ a LlllCK glOSb CUlbC 
as she lay in bed, concluded that 
**<1 '’a fir'^K*’^ thrown down by the thunder, 
ny the lightning. The family being called up, 
Ipji if ^'silted, both the bedchamber, and the kitchen 
filled with smoke and dust, 
tliar* chamber had been broken with such 
Kk cr ^ '*• fonnd of the size 
'^of '^oo of the pieces were stuck in the 
tbp _ which was of oak, as well as on the other 
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The edge^ and corners of some of the 
Of 
, * -1 were tinged of a light flame colour, 
been heated by the fire. 
^ ^ _ morning it was found that the cornice 
, next the bed-chamber had been struck off, 
X Part .|!''^®nty inches in breadth, made in the wall. 
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to 
ere was seen on the wall a smutted scar 
by the smoke of 
candle, which pointed 
''of'”® in psrt of the wall, where a similar 
3 1 Sue. Within the chamber, the boards on the 
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' 'nf P'unk, filled with linen, were forced in 
the linen were pierced or cut through, the 
'rSj''* '’^ear ^ quadrangular figure. Several pieces of 
AJ'*abont apparel, which lay on the trank, wei-e 
W room, not in any way singed or scorched, 
Wa^ °n the back of the trunk, where 
'•'i deaj ”^ade, was singed. In the kitchen, a cal 
» With its legs extended as in a moving pos- 
