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bis watch, the glafs of which it fhivered into fmalf 
pieces, and meeting perhaps with a little refiftance 
from it, fpread itfelf round his body, and produced 
the fenfation of a cord, tied clofe about his waift. 
A violent pain in his loins immediately fol- 
lowed j and from thence to his extremities there 
leemed to be a total floppage of circulation, all 
fenfation being loft, and his legs and feet re- 
fembling in colour and appearance thofe of a per- 
fon actually dead. Befides fhivering the glafs of 
his watch, the lightning melted a little of the fil- 
ver of it, and a fmall part alfo of half a crown in 
his pocket. When it came to the middle of his 
thigh, it left an impreffion of a blackifti colour, re- 
fembling the branch of a tree, which in a few days 
difappeared ; but the lines on his body are ftill vi- 
fible, and are of a dark blue, intermixed irregu- 
larly with a deep yellow. From the middle of his 
thigh the lightning changed its dire&ion again, 
and went down the under fide of it to the calf of 
his leg, and fo to his fhoe, which was fplit into fe - 
veral pieces in fo remarkable a manner, as juftly to 
claim the infpeftion of the curious. As foon as 
Mr. Pitcairn was ftruck, he funk in his chair, but 
was not ftunned ; his face was blackened, and the 
features of it diftorted. His body was burned in 
feveral places, fmall holes were made in different 
parts of his cloaths, and he loft in fome meafure 
the ufe of his legs for two or three days ; but by 
proper care he foon recovered, except a weaknefs 
and numbnefs in his right leg, which ftill remains. 
What is remarkable, Mr. Pitcairn remembers very 
well to have feen the ball of fire in the room for 
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