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a few inches of air to the ftriking rod of the clock, 
in which, near the end, it melted a large fpot, 
whence it was conduced by the work of the clock 
to the upper part of the pendulum, in the axis of 
which it melted another large fpot, and defcended 
by the rod pafifing over the ball, which it melted in a 
mod remarkable manner in fix or feven places (per- 
haps upon the ball it might accumulate, and, for 
want of a proper conveyance, break out in different 
parts of it) and quitted it at the bottom of the nut, 
which is melted in three places, and will accom- 
pany this paper. Here the ele&ricity leaped through 
eight inches of air, or paffed in conductors of the 
worft kind, dry brick and wood (with a confiderable 
cavity between them), till it reached the frame of a 
window, over the doors, where it broke the ceiling, 
and burnt the wood to a coal. Here it met with the 
point of a nail, driven upward into the window frame 
as a fecurity to the center bar. The point of this 
nail is melted off, I fuppofe, full half an inch ; it 
was alfo melted in two large fpots on the oppofite 
tides near the head. My friend Mr. Jones drew it 
from the bar, &c. This gentleman was alio fo obliging 
as to take down a fketch of the window, and an out- 
line of the parts affefted of the building. [SeeTab.VII.] 
The nail is now in the cuftody of Mr. Nairne. The 
lightning paffed down the aforementioned bar, and by 
a bent iron (in contaCf with both), into another bar, 
whofe point (which was greatly melted) came much 
nearer the upper bolt of the door. The lead-work, 
from the point of the bar was melted, and a 
board nearly in contadf with the flaple of the bolt 
much blacked by the pafiing of the ele&ricitv. 
