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tained thrown about the room. Hence it is "^v 
force of the lightning was collected on the rigl’*- O*'!'’ 
touched the filings of metal in the glass vesse 'pfoliy 
aminlng the effects of the lightning in tjie 
chamber, the door-case was found split half j 
the door torn oft’, and thrown into the 
lightning therefore seems to have confU'Ueo 
- ■ - - ceilioS 
along the chain conducted under the 
apartment, 
In a Latin treatise, published by M. Lomonoso'^^’^p,l)r'y 
of the Royal Academy of Sciences of St. . tf 
several curious particulars are mentioned •- 
melancholy catastrophe. At the time of i''* 2' 
fessor Richman had in his left coat-pocket 3 ltd‘ ^ 
[ 
called rubles, which were not in the 
His clock, which 
coins, 
the accident which befel him. 
Win' 
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corner of the next room, between an open - jjj .-.jii 
door, was stopped ; and the ashes from the h ^ 
about the apartment. Many persons witboutn 
that they actually saw tlie lightning shoot front ^ 
the Professor’s apparatus at the top of his 1 oliLif' 
author, in speaking of the phenomena of elcntncwji^liiy 
that he once saw, during a storm of thunder 
brushes of electrical fire, with a llftsing noise, jjd®. jf 
between the iron rod of his apparatus and tn .ini' 
window, and that these were three feet in lenS 
in breadth 
o-th; 
all' 
HAIL STORMS. 
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On the 17 th of July, l660, a violent storm 0 * 
--- - Norm, ,i,V 
the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk. At 
the hail-stones were comparatively small 
1 't‘ 
bridge one was taken up which measured a 
ference; at Secktbrd Hall, one winch 
ei§ “■ 
I i 
a’foot 
inches ; and at Melton, one measuring eigni ( . 
Friston Hall, one of these hail-stones ) 
balance, weighed two ounces and a half. S’ 
it was affirmed that several of them were as hi tk' ,)/ 
eggs. A carter had his head broken by 
stiff felt hat ; in some places it bled, and in 
arose : the horses were so pelted that 
they 
