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fhewed the exad form of each leg ; fo that no kind of druggie 
or convulfive motion had fucceeded the fall, but every principle 
of life feems to have been extinguished in an inftant. The 
hair was much Tinged over the greated part of their bodies ; 
but was mod: perceptible on the belly and legs. Their eyes 
were already become dull and opake, and looked like the eyes 
of an animal which had been long dead. The joints were all 
fupple ; and I could not perceive that any of the bones were 
either foftened or diffolved, as it has been alledged fometimes 
happens to animals killed by lightning. The left fhaft of the 
cart was broken ; and I obferved, that fplinters had been 
thrown off in many places, particularly where the timber of 
the cart was conneded by nails, or cramps of iron. Many 
pieces of the coal were likewife thrown out to a confiderable 
didance, all round the cart ; and home of them, which I have 
preferved, have the appearance of coal which had lain fome 
time on a fire. I likewife gathered up the fragments of Lau- 
der’s hat, which had been tom to innumerable fmall pieces ; 
fome of which I fhall inclofe for your infpedion, as well as 
part of his hair, which I found drongly united to fome of the 
fragments which had compofed the crown of the hat *. About 
four feet and a half behind each wheel of the cart, I ob- 
ferved an odd appearance in the ground ; a circular hole of 
about twenty inches in diameter, the center of which was 
exadly in the trad of each wheel. The earth was torn up, 
as if by violent blows of a pick-axe, and the fmall dones and 
dud were fcattered on each fide of the road. The tracks of 
the wheels were drongly marked in the duff, both behind and 
before thefe holes, but were completely obliterated for upwards 
of a foot and a half on thefe fpots. This led me to fufped, 
that the force which had formed them mud likewife have 
* Thefe were exhibited to the Society, C, B. 
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