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acrofs the river, might be between two and three hundred 
yards. He was fenfible of no (hock, nor uncommon fenfation 
of any kind. I went next morning to examine if there were 
any marks of putrefaction on the horfes, and to obferve the 
ftate ot the blood- veflels, &c. after the fkin had been taken 
off; but a gentleman of the neighbourhood, who kept a pack 
of hounds, had already feized on them. 
Several other phenomena happened on that day, probably 
all proceeding from the fame caufe ; l'ome of which I fhall beg 
leave to mention. 
The fhepherd, belonging to the farm of Lennel-Hill, was 
in a neighbouring field, tending his flock, when he obferved a 
lamb drop down ; and laid, he felt at the fame time as if 
fire had paffed over his face (this was his own expreflion), 
although the lightning and claps cf thunder were then at a 
great diftance from him. He ran up immediately, but found 
the lamb quite dead ; nor did he perceive tire leaf! convulfive 
motion, nor fymptom of life remaining, although the moment 
before it appeared to be in perfeCt health. He bled it with his 
knife, and the blood flowed freely. This, he told me, hap- 
pened about a quarter of an hour before the explofion which 
killed Lauder ; and it was not above three hundred yards 
diftant from the fpot. He was only a few yards from the lamb 
when it fell down. The earth was not torn up, nor did he 
obferve any duff rife. 
Thomas Foster, a celebrated fifher in Coldflream, and 
another man, were Handing in the middle ot the Tweed, 
flfhing for falmon with the rod, when they fuddenly heard a 
loudnoife; and, turning round to fee from whence it came, 
they found themfclves caught in a violent whirlwind, which 
Foster told me felt fultry and hot, and almofl prevented 
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