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It may be proper to obferve, that immediately 
after the woman had feen the lightning come from 
the cloud, as above-mentioned, fome perfons in 
the village, betides thofe in or near the vicarage 
houfe, were thrown to the ground. 
The following is the account, which Mr. Wain- 
houfe and Mr. Pitcairn give of what happened in 
the north parlour in which they were. As they 
were converting about a loud clap of thunder that 
had juft happened, they faw on a fudden a ball of 
tire between them, upon a level with the face of 
the former, and about a foot from it. They de- 
fcribe it to have been of the fize of a tixpenny loaf, 
and furrounded with a dark fmoke ; that it burft 
with an exceeding loud noife, like the firingof many 
cannons at once ; that the room was inftantly til- 
led with the thickeft fmoke ; and that they per- 
ceived a moll difagreeable fmell, refembling that 
of fulphur, vitriol, and other minerals in fufion ; 
infomuch that Mr. Pitcairn thought himfelf in 
danger of fuffocation. Mr. Wainhoufe providen- 
tially received no hurt, except a flight fcratch in 
bis face from the broken glafs that was Hying 
about the room, a kind of lfupefaclion for fome 
time, and a continued noife in his ears, which 
node, the effect of the explotion, happened like wile 
,to Mr. Pitcairn, and others in the houfe. 
The lightning fell on Mr. Pitcairn’s rjghtfhoul- 
,der, made a hole in his coat, about a quarter of 
an inch in diameter, went under his arm in one 
line to his bread;., defcended from thence down 
the lower parts of his body in two irregular lines, 
gbout half an inch broad, attracted probably by 
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