by Lightning at ITeckingham.. n - ^ 
As the faddle was thus placed by recolledtion , the girths 
reached from it to the ground (</, fig. io. and 9.) ; but neither 
thefe girths, nor any other part of the faddle, except one 
ftirrup-iron, one dirrup-leather, and' the feat, were faid to have 
been damaged by the accident. 
From the quantity of rain which fell in the thunder- florin, 
the flable- was overflowed with water, which gradually funk 
into the drain (at y,. fig. 9. and 10. ) ; The leather dripped off 
the feat of the faddle was found in the liable near this drain; 
whether thrown there originally, or carried by the water, 
is uncertain. From the point of the floor immediately under 
the faddle, to the neared: part of the drain, was about 1 2§*feet ;• 
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the width of the drain (y, fig. 9.) 14 inches ; its length- 
through the wall to the edge of the hole or fink into which it 
d-ifcharges itfelf 1 8^ inches, and the depth of the fink from the 
bottom of the drain about one foot and an half; As this fink 
was. merely a hole* without any drain leading from it, and was 
bricked at the fides, the water could not pal's off by the drain 
of the dable any fader than it could : foak through the loofe 
foil at the bottom of the fink. And it is evident, from this 
conftru&ion, that the earth under the fink will ulually be fome' 
of the wetted near the building* and be impregnated with frits 
from the dale of the horfes. . 
Except the. marks which have been* already defcribed, we 
could not find on any part of the dable, either within or with- 
out, the lead vedige of the lightning. We particularly exa- 
mined the lead jlajhing on the top of the roof (from c to d, fig. 
11.), and the hay-chamber immediately under the three broken', 
bricks and thedifplaced pantiles, but in vain. There was a hook 
fixed in the w T all, 15 inches below the nail on which the faddle 
bung, and .fo exactly underneath, that the- dirrup-leather may- 
be- 
