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portion of the lightning, the great explofion of which 
was heard all over Naples, had been conducted 
through cur affembly. In the garrets tinder the 
aftrico, or flat roof, we could perceive no figns of 
damage j under them, in the rich apartment imme- 
diately over Lord Tylney’s, and confiding of the fame 
number of rooms, the gilding of the cornifhes, bands, 
chairs, fophas, &c. exhibited exadly the fame ap- 
pearance as in Lord Tylney’s, which fhall be parti- 
cularly deferibed prefently. The account of the ap- 
pearances at the moment of the explofion, given us 
by the few people that were in the apartments at the 
time, correfponded perfectly with what we had feen 
below. 
Lord Tylney’s apartment confifls of five rooms 
on a line, and four others, going off at a right an- 
gle from the fourth room of that line. The lightning 
leems to have entered the firfl room of the five to- 
wards the north, and which is under that part of the 
gutter where we fufpeded it to have entered that 
part of the houfe. The five rooms of this line are 
of the fame breadth, 23I feet, and the four others 
are 1 4} feet broad. The firfl: room is i 3 § feet 
long. The gilt cornifh of the whole apartment is 
in general 9I inches broad, and the gilt band that 
goes round the hangings 2 % inches in breadth. The 
cornifh of the room is only blackened at the joints, 
particularly the corners, and where there was any 
flaw or crack in the gilding. The finall bands,- 
which appear by their colours to have conduded the 
lightning down from the cornifh in eight different 
parts of this room are (as in the other rooms) 14 
feet 
