Effect of Lightning on a Bullock . 497 
that I am now quite recovered from my illnefs. I have 
not had an opportunity of feeing Mr. green, therefore 
cannot tell how his account may agree with mine ; but 1 
have endeavoured, as much as poilible, to get an exadl 
hate of the matter, having carefully infpe&ed the bullock 
twice, accompanied by my nephew and a gentleman at 
my houfe. The creature being, as I obferved to you be- 
fore, remarkably gentle, we could examine every part 01 
him very minutely. You will fee by the drawing, that 
the white hair was all ftripped off from his back and 
down the fides, as low as the greateft diameter of his 
body, alfo from the top of the nofe, the upper part of 
both cheeks, and over the eyes, leaving the fkin quite 
bare ; but below thofe places, under the bell) , gullet, the 
under parts of the cheeks, the legs, and ring of white in the 
tail, together with an edge of white at the parting of the 
red and white hair, all remained without the lead: injury. 
We were the more particular in examining the legs, on 
account of your mentioning that Mi. gr.h,en had ob— 
ferved traces of the ftroke down them to the ground, in 
which, I think, he muff be miftaken; for, both the times 
when we faw the bullock, his legs were quite clean down 
to the hoofs, and the hair feemed to be in a perfect itate. 
If the legs had been at all affedted, I think, it could not 
have efcaped our notice in two examinations; and there 
being no marks of lightning on them, inclines me to 
think, that the bullock was lying down at the time, and 
if fo, you will readily account for the under parts not be- 
ing touched. The lightning being condu&ed by the white 
