134 'Earl Stanhope’s Remarks on Mr. Brydone’s 
all, or (at leaf!) in different parts of the cart, and of the bo- 
dies of the man and horfes, although there were no lightning. 
§ 9. Wonderful as thele combined facts may appear, and 
uncommon as they certainly are in this country, they are, 
neverthelefs, eafy to be explained by means of that particular 
fpecies of electrical (hock, which I have diftinguifhed in my 
Principles * of EleCtricity (publifhed in 1779) by the appella- 
tion of the “ eledirical returning Jiroke and although at the 
time I wrote that Treatife, I had it not in my power to pro- 
duce any inftance of perfons or animals having been killed in 
the very peculiar manner fmce related in Mr. Brydone’s 
Paper ; I did, however (from my experiments mentioned in 
that Book), venture to afiert, with confidence, that f, “if 
“ perfons be ftrongly fuperinduced by the eleCtrical atmofphere 
“ of a cloud, they may (under circumftances fimilar to thofe 
“ explained in that Treatife) receive a very ftrong fhock, be 
“ knocked down, or be even killed, at the inftant that the 
“ cloud difcharges, with an explcfion, its eleClricity, whether 
“ the lightning falls near the very place where thofe perfons 
“ are, or at a very confiderable diflance from that place, or 
“ whether the cloud be pofitively or negatively eledirified.” 
And I moreover dated that J, “ whether the diftance be- 
“ tween the perfon fo circumftanced, and the place where the 
“ lightning falls, be fifty or an hundred yards, or one mile, or 
“ two miles, or three miles, or more, the truth of the ge- 
* See Principles of Electricity, containing divers new Theorems and Experi- 
ments, together with an Analyfis of the fuperior Advantages of high and pointed 
Conductors; by Charles Yi'fcount Mahon, F. R. S. from § 20a. to § 34.-. 
inclusively. 
f See Principles of Electricity, §311. 
J See Principles of Electricity, § 313. 
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