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!XV.  Sundry  Papers  relative  to  an  Accident  from  Light- 
ning at  Purfleet,  May  15,  1777- 
I.  A Letter  from  Mr.  Boddington,  Secretary  to  the  Board 
of  Ordnance , to  Dr.  Horfley,  Sec.  R.  S.  with  Two  En- 
-clofures  from  Mr.  Nickfon,  Store-keeper  at  Purfleet, 
giving  an  Account  of  the  Accident. 
T O D R.  H O E S L E Y,  SEC.  R.  S. 
Office  of  Ordhaiice, 
S I Rj  May  31,  1777. 
TAM  directed  by  the  lieutenant-general  and  the  reft  of 
the  principal  officers  of  the  Ordnance,  to  tranfmit  to 
you  the  copies  of  the  reports  and  plan  received  from 
Purfleet,  on  occalion  of  fome  damage  done  by  lightning; 
which  reports  and  plan  they  defire  you  will  pleafe  to  lay 
-before  the  Royal  Society. 
I am,  Sec. 
JOHN  BODDINGTON. 
TO 
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