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XXXIV. Accoimt of the EffeSts of a 'Thun- 
der-Storm , on the i $th of March 1773, 
upon the Houfe of Lord Tylney at Naples. 
In a Letter from the Honourable Sir Wil- 
liam Hamilton, Knight of the Bath , his 
Majefy s Envoy Extraordinary at the 
Court of Naples, and F. R. S . to Mathew 
Maty, M. D. Sec. R . S. 
Naples, March 20, 1773. 
S I R, 
Read June 17, /^vN Monday lart, about half pail ten 
I 773- at night, I had the fatisfa&ion 
of being one, of many witnertes, to feveral curious 
phenomena, occafioned by the lightning having 
fallen on Lord Tylney’s houfe, in this city. It was 
on his Lordfhip’s aflembly night > fo that mort of 
the nobility of this country, many of the foreign 
minifters, foreigners of diftinvftion, particularly Eng- 
lish, were prefent at the time of the explofion ; to 
be fure there were not lefs than two hundred and 
fifty in the apartments, and, including fervants, the 
whole number under Lord Tylney’s roof could 
not be lefs than five hundred. The lightning parted 
through nine rooms, feven of which were crouded 
with 
