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feet high, and thefe are what I fhall call hereafter 
vertical defcents, as marked in the dt awing of the 
fedtion of the room A. The gilding of a fopha in 
this room is likewife blackened. We found, that 
whenever a chair or fopha had been affedted, it was 
owing to its having been, at the time of the explo- 
fion, in contadt with the gilt band, and that the 
point of contadt was continually marked by a black 
fpot, both on the chair and band. 
The fecond room, or gallery, in which Monfieur 
de Saufiure and I were at the time the lightning 
fell, is 3 feet long; the gilding of the cornifh is 
much damaged, particularly on that fide in contadt 
with the bell wire. The lightning in this room had 
ten vertical defcents, and palled over the gilding 
of two chairs, two fopha’s, and the frames of two 
marble tables, the white marble of which, at thofe 
parts which were in contadt with the gilding, is 
tinged yellow, and fuch parts of the damalk of the 
chairs and fopha’s as were in contadt with the gild- 
ing, and had nails underneath, are finged. I found, 
upon enquiry, that molt of thofe who were fitting 
upon thefe particular chairs and fopha’s were fen- 
fible of a fmart ftroke. 
The third room, a fedtion of which is marked A. 
in -the drawing, is thirteen feet long, the cornifh 
much damaged, a fopha and two chairs damaged ; 
nine vertical defcents in this room. 
The fourth room is 14! feet long; the cornifh is 
damaged, and the lightning had nine vertical de- 
fcents in this room likewife, the bands being much 
damaged. 
The 
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