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feet of it being furrounded by ftone work, and fixed 
firmly therein by melted lead, was not in the 
leaft affected ; but conduced the ftroke, as far as 
it went, with fafety to itfelf as well as the building; 
and no doubt would have done the fame to the 
bottom, had it been continued thither. In this 
bar, the lightning had an opportunity of accumu- 
lating, and it appears, that it did fo. to a mofl 
aflonifhing degree; yet the gilding only, on the 
fane, was a little difcoloured, owing perhaps to 
the gold fize, which connected it with the metal; 
and this, it feems, was all the damage it fuftained. 
Similar to this, I would obferve, that the paint, 
on feveral parts of the iron-work, now in my 
poffeffion, of the chapel, through which the light- 
ning hath palled, is not at all affected. An iron 
bar alfo, upon the obelisk before -mentioned, of 
about half an inch diameter, which fupports the 
lamp iron at the N. W. corner, upon which the 
lightning concentrated ; and two of the iron rails, 
on which it leaped from thence, are not injured 
in the painting; though the points of the rails, 
which were the fourth on the N. and the fifth on 
the W. fide, and the two corners of the iron bar, 
from whence it flew upon them, were melted a 
little. It is worthy notice, that thefe two rails 
were the neareft to, and Hood at nearly an equal 
diftance, about twenty-five inches, from the lower 
end of the bar before-mentioned. In fhort, the 
more I refledt on this remarkable account, and 
confider the effedts of lightning in former and 
limilar inftances, the more firmly I find myfelf 
fixed in my opinion, that the appearances, oblerved 
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