Earl Stanhope’s Remarks, 6cc. 
w he immediately ran to his afiidance, but found him quite 
“ dead ; he perceived” (at the time of the accident) “ no flafh 
“ or appearance of fire.” 
It alio appears, that another man, a fhepherd of St. Cutli- 
bert’s farm, was alfo a witneis of this event. He was didant 
from Lauder “ between two and three hundred yards, and was 
“ looking at the two carts, when he was dunned by a loud 
“ report, and at the fame indant faw the fird of the carts fall 
* c to the ground. He faw no lightning, nor appearance of fire 
“ whatever.” 
• • 
The concurrent tedimonv of thefe two men is confirmed 
by Patrick Brydone, Efq. who lives “ at a fmall didance” 
from the fpot where Lauder was killed: and Mr. Brydone 
relates, that a dorm appeared far off; and that he, and fome 
company in his houfe, were “ fuddenly alarmed by a loud 
“ report, for which they were not prepared by any preceding 
“ dafh.” There is the greater weight to be given to this 
account of Mr. Brydone, as it fo happened, that he was jud 
then “ obferving the progrefs of the dorm, at an open win- 
“ dow, in the iecond dory of his houfe,'’ and making the 
company “ obferve, by a dop-watch, the time that the found 
“ took to reach them.” 
It is extremely fortunate, that a gentleman, fond of philo- 
fophical enquiries, ihould have been upon the fpot at the time 
of this accident, to give to the world fo clear and intereding 
an account. 
§ 3. That the death of Lauder and of the horfes was not 
occafioned by any direct main Jirohe of cxp'ojion from a thunder- 
cloud, either pofitively or negatively electrified, is evident ; 
fince no lightning whatever did pafs from the clouds to the 
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