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ter fitting in a great chair, with his back to the 
fire-place, near the wire of a bell. In the 
fouth parlour, feparated from the other by a hall, 
were a maid fervant and a painter ; in the kitchen 
another maid fervant ; in the coal-houfe, four or 
five yards from the houfe, a man fervant ; near 
the barn, about fifty or fixty yards from the houfe, 
another man fervant. When the lightning fell 
upon the houfe, the man fervant near the barn 
heard a very loud noife, equal, he fuppofes, to the 
found of twenty cannons fired at once, and would 
have fallen to the ground, if he had not caught 
hold of fomething to fupport himfelf. The other 
man fervant in the coal houfe was (truck back- 
ward, and felt fomething, as he defcribes it, like a 
(tream of warm water poured upon the middle of 
his body, which, if it was not the eleCtric fluid 
itfelf, was the heated air expanding itfelf with vi- 
olence after the explofion. The maid in the_ 
kitchen heard a great noife, but received no (hock. 
The other maid fervant, who was handing near 
the middle of the fouth parlour, fuffered likewife 
no fhock, being only terrified exceedingly with 
the explofion, and the fparks of fire, which fhe 
law on all tides of her ; but the painter, who was 
in the fame room, painting near the chimney and 
the bell wire, was (truck on the left fide of his body 
that was next the wire, from his head to his waift ; 
he felt in particular a fevere fhock, like the electri- 
cal one, in his left wrift, which was marked all 
round with blue and yellow intermixed ; a fplinter 
from the wooden cafe, that covered the bell-wire, 
(truck through his glove, and wounded his hand ; 
and he was (tunned for fome time. 
It 
