49 8 Mr. henly’s Account of the 
hair, from the top of the back down the fides, came 
to the ground, at the place where the white hair is 
left entire ; but there is one remarkable circum- 
ftance, viz. though all the white hair on the upper 
parts was taken away, as beforementioned, yet the tuft 
of white hair on the forehead never received any hurt 
at all. I have converfed with feveral farmers, 8c c. in 
hopes of getting fome information relative to thofe mat- 
ters, but can meet with nothing perfectly fatisfacftory. 
The beft account I have been able to obtain is from my 
neighbour Mr. tooth, a farrier and bullock-leach. He 
tells me, that this circumftance is not new to him ; that 
he has feen a great many pyed bullocks ftruck by light- 
ning in the fame manner as this, both in his father’s 
time (his father being of the fame trade) and lince; 
and that the texture of the fkin under the white hair 
was always deftroyed, though looking fair at firft; and, 
after a while, it became fore, throwing out putrid matter 
in puftules, like the fmall pox with us, which in time falls 
off, when the hair grows again as before ; and that the 
bullocks receive no further injury. In this hate 1 found 
Mr. rogers’s bullock, the fecond time I faw it, which 
was about a month after the firft vifit ; fome of the fcabs 
were then dropping off, and the hair was coming on 
afrefh. I afkcd Mr. tooth, whether he could recollect 
among thole bullocks which he, or his father, had feen 
ftruck dead by lightning, any that were white or pyed? 
But in this he could not fafisfy me; if he could, 1 think, 
it would have thrown fome light on the fubjedt. I 
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