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quite round the building. In this gutter was ere&ed 
a fmall lanthorn, in which hung the bell of the clock. 
A little pipe of lead was foldered to, and extended 
perpendicularly a few inches above, the furface of the 
gutter ; through this pipe went a fmall iron wire con- 
fiding of many long links, connected with the tail 
of the hammer; pahing thence within a few inches 
of the {h iking rod of the clock, to which it was tied 
by a drong hempen firing 6 inches or more in length. 
The lightning fird druck the pine-apple, the upper 
part of which it fhivered into very fmall fragments, 
and threw them in all dire&ions from the place, and 
melted off the end of one of the fpikes. It left a 
fmoky track upon the under-part of it, and then 
{truck the edge of the lead upon the plinth, which 
it melted in two places, quite through the fubftance 
of it. A little below thefe I found a third fpot ; 
this was melted in a very regular and curious con- 
cave about an |th of an inch diameter at the fur- 
face, with a fmall perforation at the bottom, through 
which I think might have been introduced one of the 
fined: fort of lowing needles. The whole figure fome- 
what refembled a fmall funnel *. It pafled thence by 
a regular communication of metal, till it reached the 
wire of the clock hammer before fpoken of, melting 
it about half through its diameter, which, in this place, 
was lefs than the twelfth part of an inch. The edge of 
the lead pipe from which it leaped to the wire was 
alfo much melted. The wire was melted at every 
jun&ure of the links ; the packthread at the bottom was 
but little injured, but the eleftric matter leaped through 
* Quere, is not this a token of the ftroke’s being from the 
clouds downwards ? 
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