500 Mr. henly’s Account of the 
3dly, If the above fuppofitions are allowed, may not 
any internal injury to the Ikin (as a violent eledlric ex- 
plofion palling through it) prove more fatal to the white 
or light hair than to the black, red, or darker colours? 
Should the above queries be all acknowledged, by 
thofe gentlemen who have conlklered the fubjedt, to be 
truths ; yet, I believe, they will fcarcely be thought fuf- 
ficient to account for the whole effedl of lightning which 
has appeared in this cafe, and particularly for the edge 
of white hair adjoining to the red, which remained un- 
hurt by it; but as they may, perhaps, in fome meafure 
have contributed towards this phenomenon, I have barely 
mentioned them as fuppolitions, and fuppohtions only, 
which have occurred to me. 
A SUBSEQUENT LETTER FROM MR. LAMBERT. 
dear sir, Dec. 6, 1774. 
1 HAVE, according to your delire, enquired of Mr. 
tooth, whether he ever faw a broke of lightning 
actually fall upon a pyed bullock, fo as to deftroy the 
white hair, and brew the evident marks of burning, 
leaving the red hair uninjured ? He fays, he never did ; 
nor can he recoiled! any one that has. But he gives me 
an account of a pyed horfe of his being killed, four or 
five years iince, in a liable adjoining to his houfe, by a 
Broke of lightning which happened in the night; and 
being very great, Mr. tooth thinking it bruck his houfe, 
immediately 
