by Lightning at Heckingham. o y L 
length (from e to f 9 fig. io.) two feet five inches ; and the 
pantiles feem to have been dilplaced a little farther down on 
the roof (g-, fig. io.) than the line correfponding perpendicu- 
larly with the north end of the (helf (/£, fig. io.). Neither the 
fhelf, nor the nails fupporting it, which were both near its 
north end, Ihewed any figtis of injury ; whence it may be con- 
jectured, that if the lightning took its courfe this way, it 
palled obliquely between the faddle and the roof, lo as to mifs 
the edge of the fhelf, leaving it to the fouthward. The upper 
part of the fouth fide of the liable was boarded off from tnc 
reft, to form a hay-chamber, which occupied fo large a portion 
of the roof (from x to m 9 fig. io.), that the boards of the per- 
pendicular partition (at o 9 fig. io.) came within ten inches of 
the nail on which the faddle hung. Thefe boards were fattened 
to the uprights of the partition, all the way down from the 
*oof, by nails about fix inches afunder, confequently lome of 
thole nails mull have been within ten inches of the ftirrup-iron 
as it hung on the nail in the wall ( o and n, fig. io.). No 
tokens of the lightning could be dilcovered on thofe boards, or 
the nails fattening them ; w r e could not, therefore, be certain, 
whether any part of it had palled that way. The nail which 
l'upported the faddle was equally free from marks ; but one ot 
the ftirrup-leathers was much torn and burnt, and a large piece 
of the leather was Itripped off the feat of the faddle, betides other 
damage done to it in that part. One of the ffirrup-iions, 
likewife, exhibits fome appearances of fufion on the arch 
through which the flirrup-leather paffes. I his iron, as well as 
the llirrup-leather, being the only damaged parts ot the faddle 
that remained, we have brought for your inlpecuon. 
It mull be evident that we derived the knowledge or molt of 
thefe circumlfances relative to the eff'eCts of the lightning upon 
and within the liable from information, the damages having 
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