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with a round iron condu&or, half an inch thick, its 
feveral lengths fcrewed together, fo as to make very 
good joints, and the lower end five or fix feet under 
ground j the lightning, leaving every thing elfe, pur- 
fued its way through that, melted off fix inches and 
a half of the flendereft part of a brafs wire fixed on 
the top, and did no further damage within doors, 
or without. Captain Falconer, who brings you this, 
was in the houfe at the time of the ftroke, and fays if 
was an aftonifhing loud one. 
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