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much narrower, goes round the hangings, and down 
the corners, where it is double, which you will im- 
mediately comprehend, by carting your eye on the 
fedtion of the gallery, marked A, of the inclofed draw- 
ing [lee Tab. XIII J. The chairs, fophas, frames 
of pictures, tables, &c. are ufually of the fame fort 
of gilding, at leaft they were fo here. By fending 
you the dimenfions of each room of Lord Tylney’s 
apartment, you will fee on what a prodigious fur- 
face of gilding the lightning fpread itlelf in its 
courfe ; for you muft add the fame quantity of gild- 
ing in the apartments over Lord Tylney’s, which 
are of the fame dimenlions, as richly decorated, and 
as much damaged ; though we remarked that Lord 
Tylney’s rooms that had fuffered moft, did not al- 
ways correfpond with thofe that fuffered moft in the 
upper apartments. Monfieur de Sauffure and I be- 
gan our examination on the flat roof of the houfe, 
compofed of a kind of ftucco, on which there was 
no fign of damage ; neither was there on any of the 
chimneys. A tin gutter, with many fpouts of the 
fame metal, projecting about three feet, is imme- 
diately under this roof, and each of the fpouts is 
fupported by a fmali iron rod, or cramp, inferted in 
the wall underneath, and above by two wires of about 
the fize of a gooie-quill, and which likewife go into 
the wall. We obferved a wire of this fort melted; 
and it feems highly probable, that the lightning found 
its way into the houfe at this place. We obferved 
alfo, from the roof, that, though the houfe rtands 
high, it is neverthelefs commanded by many cu- 
polas, and higher buildings ; which, with other cir- 
cumftances, makes it highly probable, that only a 
portion 
