Mr. brereton’s Account of a Storm of Lightning, he. 43 
help coming in, and examining his cloaths, which were blue 
cloth, his right fleeve, both of coat and waiftcoat, and alfo fiiirt, 
were all torn on the infide of the arm entirely open, as if by a 
dog, from the fhoulder to the wrift ; the right- fide of the 
breeches was torn in the fame manner, and part of each of 
the brafs buttons melted. 
He had in his fob a gold watch with a fteel chain ; the but- 
ton which opens it and three other places of the cafe were 
melted. The pendant to which the chain is fixed was almoft 
melted through, and much of the fteel chain is incorporated with 
it, as is reciprocally fome gold on that part of the fteel which 
was within the fob. The going of the watch had flopped in- 
ftantaneoufly, occafioned, as at firft appeared by the fmall 
pendulum fpiral fteel fpring having been lengthened ; not that 
it was abfolutely fo, but relatively, refpedting the fcapement of 
the watch, the feveral inner turns being brought clofer together. 
His right-arm, right-fide, and thigh, were miferably fcorched, 
and the fiefh torn : the foot of the flocking of his right leg and his 
ihoe were torn in feveral places' between the buckle and the toe- 
end of the Ihoe, and one of his toes fplit almoft to the bone ; but 
the buckle, which was a broad filver one, was not the leaf! hurt 
or even marked, and remained buckled as before. His fleeve* 
button of gold, in which was platted hair covered with cryftal, 
was broken from its link, and neither hair or cryftal have been 
found fince. A key and a pen-knife in his. right-fide breeches 
pocket have feveral marks of fufion upon them. 
The frame of the window on which Mr. adaiR was lean- 
ing was little damaged ; but every pane of glafs fo completely 
fmalhed, you could fcarce perceive it had ever had glafs in it. The 
room was ftuccoed and papered, and between the windows hung a 
large pier glafs, which, with much of the ftucco, was fhivered to 
pieces, and ftrewed over the floor. A door oppofite the window 
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