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Almoft at the fame inftant that this fpire was 
ftruck, the lightning fell alfo upon a Dutch fliip, 
in the river Thames, lying off the Tower, which 
had an iron fpindle, terminated by a thick blunted 
end, at her mail:- head, and did her much damage. 
A very exaft account of which hath been taken 
by Mr. bell, and, at .another opportunity, wili be 
laid before the members of this Society. 
The lightning ftruck alfo upon the pillar, com- 
monly called the obelisk, in the crofs road in St. 
George’s-fields, Southwark ; a very curious ob- 
fervation of which was made, foon after the 
ftroke, by Mr. Coventry, and Mr. Thomas Green, 
well known to many in the Royal Society, for his 
lingular and very curious method of preferving 
the fubjedts of natural hiftory. It likewife llruck 
the chimney of the new Bridewell there, which 
it threw down to the ridge of that building, which 
was covered with lead ; and then difperfed itfelf 
with little damage. The lightning fell likewife 
upon another chimney, at lambeth ; and upon a 
houfe at the Phylick-garden, near vauxhali. ; 
and, as before obferved, it appears by the bell infor- 
mation, nearly at the fame time; and in many 
other places, conliderably diftant from each other. 
I have obferved, on another occalion, that if a 
round ball of metal, two inches in diameter, was 
prefented towards the large prime conductor to a 
good cylinder, at the diftance of two inches, it 
would continue to receive fuch ftrong fparks, as 
would give the perfon who held it, a fenfible 
fhock in both his legs ; but that if the point of a 
lancet, or a wire fix inches long, nicely tapered 
to a point, and tipped with heel, were, at the fame 
rime, 
