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they aie To or not, I have troubled you with a defcription 
ol this cafe; if it fhould prove to be no novelty, you will 
only have the trouble of reading it. 
In the evening of Sunday the twenty-eighth of Au- 
guft, at this place, there was an appearance of a thunder 
lform, but we heard no report. A gentleman, w r ho was 
riding near the marlhes not far dibant from this town, 
law two ftrong babies of lightning, feemingly running 
along the ground of the marfh, at about nine of the 
clock in the evening. On Monday morning, when the 
fervants of Mr. Rogers, a farmer at Swanborough, in 
the parifh of Iford, went into the marfh, to fetch the 
oxen to their work, they found one of them, a four-year- 
old fleer, handing up, to appearance much burnt, and fo 
weak as to be lcarce able to walk. This was mentioned 
to me about a week after the accident happened ; and by 
the defcription of it, it feemed to have been brack with 
lightning in a very uncommon manner. The ox is of a 
red and white colour; the white in large marks, begin- 
ning at the rump-bone, and running, in various direc- 
tions, along both the Tides; the belly is all white, and the 
whole head and horns are white like wife. The light- 
ning, with which it mub have been undoubtedly brack, 
fell on the rump-bone, which is wTite, and dibributed 
itfelf along the Tides, in Tuch a manner, as to take off all 
' the white hair from the white marks as low as the bottom 
of the ribs, but fo as to leave a lib of white hair, about 
half an inch broad, all round where it joined to the red; 
and not a hngle hair of the red, that I can perceive, is 
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