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down the Selves, carried out ail the fouth windows, forced up the 
tair-ca e, blown out the north window, but fpared the clock, which 
tood dole by it; and being fomewhat fpent when it reached the hall, 
earned out the windows, and moved not fome Delft bafons which 
w-ere in the fouth window, forced the door of a beaufet at the end 
0 t e ia an inch and hall inwards, and fhook the eaftern wall of 
the houfe throughout to the very foundation.” 
1 ThC j Ugh r might be fufficie nt here to relate the matters of fad in 
t e ox er o time, place, and degree, as they happened, yet one 
cannot help admiring the different currents, motions, fhapes, and 
e o ations o this Lightning. The clouds over Moelfra hill and 
t is u age o Trythal, a fpace of about a mile and half, were 
? IT ! UC , m °y e C ar S ed inflammable vapours than the other 
clouds, that here they broke both the firft and fecond time, with 
up^rior vioence, and the Thunder-claps were within a few minutes 
0 one another, as being produced but by two portions of one and 
the lame congeries of fire. 
The general tendency of this Lightning was as the direftion of 
he wind at that time; that is, from the North Weft Eaftwardly; 
but where the principal explofions were (as at the hill and the houfe) 
many branches fpread themfelves off in all directions. 
Nor were the lhapes in which it operated lefs various than its 
mo ions, ometimes, as from its effects appeared, it was pointed 
fheet nr ft m 0n if b aces ed £ ed as a feythe ; now but one thin 
• r 11 ream > then two or three, and afterwards one again; now 
t fell as feveral feparate balls of fire; but upon the houfe, where 
the principal explofion was, as a large gufh or torrent. 
It was all fire, yet of different powers, according to the impreg- 
nation of its feveral portions : fubtil and penetrating as the eledfrical 
nnh, r ti an f P ermeated the human frame ; feme parts of it 
effefl TT °° ]- never melted iron, which is the more common 
wounded ^ Tf ’ Tn T the leather and cloaths - fome cut and 
Darts of thi 1 r °I ne kl ed ’ . wlthout vifible cut or ptmeture ; other 
and fleih, oVd^LTmlff ‘’Tn' "°? dl ckarb % 
th 1 la Pi )ei ^5 < ^ * n piace, and all in an inftant ; and altho’ 
irni !* S Were , ( . )mevvbat Ringed as well as torn, and the young 
effeA f u r0U r i 18 Waift Was alfo ^ched, 7^ from the general 
was rafil f r S - f lg tn ! n ? at r tbe b i d an d village, I conclude, that it 
flammatory W1 * ^ lrrebftlbl y piercing, than diffolvent and in- 
of Lightnina eneCl m ^ Wm - ter montl1 of December, but the ravages 
01 Lightning are not limited to a feafon. 
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