by Lightning at Ileckingham. 
It may be proper, however, to add the two following pieces of 
information. 
One of the cripples in the Houfe of Indudry, a middle-aged 
woman, allured us, that at the time of the accident, as (he 
was looking from the door of the hall (which is in the center 
of the front facing the fouth), (he faw three balls of lire dart 
down ; that one fell exaTly oppofite her ; a fecond leemed to 
drike the corner of the houfe ; and the other delcended in the 
direction of a door in the eadern flank, which was not far out 
of the perpendicular line of the chimney E (fee the general 
plan, fig. i.). If any credit could be given to the teflimony of 
ilich a perfon in a matter like this, it would incline us to be- 
lieve, that the exploiion was made in three dreams, of which 
one palled through the conductor of the chimney E, and ano- 
ther through the damaged corner of the houfe ; whild the third 
fellon the ground, or, as the woman delcribed it, on the great 
gate of the fore court near the lodges (fee the general plan, 
fig. i.). We examined the gate and lodges, with the adjacent 
parts, but could nowhere difcover any marks of injury; nor 
could we learn that any place in the neighbourhood had been 
druck, or that any perfon, except this woman, pretended to 
have feen the courle of the lightning. 
In our return to town, through Norwich, we faw an inge- 
nious gentleman of that city, who fays, that he found the 
clouds negative there on the day of the accident at Hecking- 
ham. The two places are didant about eleven miles by the 
road. 
It would be unpardonable to conclude this Report, without 
exprefling our obligations to the Directors and Guardians of 
the Houfe of Indudry at large, and to the neighbouring 
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