Effect of Lightning on a Bullock . 50 i 
immediately got up and went to the liable, when he faw 
his horfe was ftruck, and almoft dead to appearance, 
though it kept on its legs near half an hour before it 
expired. The horfe was pyed white on the fhoulder and 
mold part of the head; that is, all the forehead and nofe, 
where the greatefl force of the ftroke came. The hair 
was not burnt nor difcoloured, only fo loofened at the 
root, that it came off at the leaft touch. And this is the 
cafe, Mr. tooth obferves, with all he has feen or heard 
of, viz. the hair is never burnt, but the fkin always 
affedted, as I defcribed it in my former letters. In the 
above horfe, Mr. tooth fays, all the blood in the veins, 
under the white parts of the head, was quite flagnated, 
though he could perceive it to flow as ufual in other 
parts of the body, under the brown hair; and the fkin, 
together with one fide of the tongue, was parched and 
dried up to a greater degree than any he had ever feen 
before. The horfe flood in a flail clofe to the door of 
the liable, which was boarded on that fide, and through 
them, he thinks, the lightning flruck him. I am, See. 
Extra-El of another Letter from Mr. Lambert, dated 061 . 
10, 1775, with a Drawing N° 3. 
I HERE fend you another inflance of the effedt of 
lightning on a bullock of Mr. alse’s, at Glynd, which 
happened on the 20th of lafl month; it is fimilar to the 
other I fent you in every refpedt, except that I think the 
ftroke on this muff have been greater, as the fcarf-fkin 
U u u 2 feems 
