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ed ; its pafiage is clearly worked on the wall, as is 
reprefented in the drawing C, and the diftance from 
one picture frame to the other is thirteen inches. 
It went then to the other picture frame, and down 
to the gilding of the door cafe, which is furrounded 
in part, having made a hole in the wall, which 
however it did not pierce. 
The lightning feems to have been much Wronger 
in thefe two rooms than in any other ; and, as they 
were fervants rooms, there were not above two or 
three people in them at the time of the explofion. 
Underneath thefe apartments we found no traces 
of the explofion, except on the wall of the room 
direCtly under the door cafe of Lord Tylney’s eighth 
room, where a piece of the plaiftered wall of about 
fix inches fquare was beat out, and fcattered about 
the floor. 
Under this room again was a wall in a damp 
wafh-houfe, where mod: probably the light- 
ning communicated with the earth, and dif- 
perfed itfelf. 
Thus have I followed it through its courfe, 
and will take my leave of you ; but firft I mud 
tell you, that I have fucceeded in difcharging 
my battery of nine bottles over the cornices of 
two of my rooms, which reprefents in miniature 
exaCtly what we favv in fuch perfection at Lord 
Tylney’s. 
An excellent eleCtrical machine that I had of 
Mr. Nairne is the wonder of this country j as 
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