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beer, but the calk was not materially damaged, 
nor the beer fpilt. The iron bell-wire in both 
the parlours and the hall was reduced to fmoke 
and entirely diffipated, excepting in thole parts 
where it was twilled, and double, and alfo the 
wire Iprings contiguous to the bell, which the 
lightning left undamaged, as well as the brafs 
handles and bell itfelf. The deling and wall on 
each fide, where the wire went, was flained irre- 
gularly, a foot or more in breadth, with a dark, 
blue intermixed with a deep yellow. It is worth 
obferving, that this iron bell wire was very fmall, 
conliderably lefs than a common knitting needle ; 
but though it was itfelf deftroyed, yet it feems 
to have ferved as a condudtor to the lightning, and 
to have prevented worfe effefts than happened. 
For when the lightning had run along, and con- 
fumed all the Jingle wire, and had reached that 
which was twilled and double in the fouth par- 
lour, contiguous to the brafs handle, which the 
bell ufed to be rung with, it made a hole in the 
wall of five or fix inches in diameter, being at- 
tracted probably by an iron {love on the other fide 
in the kitchen chimney, where meeting with fe- 
veral large conductors, andirons, poker, tongs, &c. 
it feems to have been conveyed into the ground. 
This appears probable, becaufe the progrefs of- it 
below flairs could not be traced beyond this hole, 
which it made in the wall. .In the chamber -over 
the kitchen, a fmall piece of wood was indeed 
{truck cut of a bed poll, and the glafs of half a 
window was driven outwards ; but this does not 
feem to have been the immediate effedl of the 
lightning, but of the fhake from the explofion. 
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