An account of a very extraordinary effect of lightning on a bullock : at Swanborow, in the parish of Iford near Lewes, in the county of Sussex / in sundry letters from Mr. James Lambert ... and one from William Green ... to William Henly. Read at the Royal Society, May 1, 1776.

  • Lambert, James, 1725-1788.
Date:
1776
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Credit: An account of a very extraordinary effect of lightning on a bullock : at Swanborow, in the parish of Iford near Lewes, in the county of Sussex / in sundry letters from Mr. James Lambert ... and one from William Green ... to William Henly. Read at the Royal Society, May 1, 1776. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ) 3dly, If the above fuppofitions are allowed, may not any internal injury to the Ik in (as a violent eledlric ex- plofion palling through it) prove more fatal to the white or light hair than to the black, red, or darker colours ? Should the above queries be all acknowledged, by thofe gentlemen who have conlidered the fubjedt, to be truths; yet, I believe, they will fcarcely be thought fuf- ficient to account for the whole effedt of lightning which has appeared in this cafe, and particularly for the edge of white hair adjoining to the red, which remained un¬ hurt by it; but as they may, perhaps, in lome meafure have contributed towards this phenomenon, I have barely mentioned them as fuppofitions, and fuppofitions only, which have occurred to me. A SUBSEQUENT LETTER FROM MR. LAMBERT. dear sir, Dec. 6, 1774. T HAVE, according to your delire, enquired of Mr. -®- tooth, whether he ever faw a ftroke of lightning adtually fall upon a pyed bullock, fo as to deftroy the white hair, and fhew the evident marks of burning, leaving the red hair uninjured ? He fays, he never did; nor can he recolledt any one that has. But he gives me an account of a pyed horfe of his being killed, four or five years fince, in a ftable adjoining to his houfe, by a ftroke of lightning which happened in the night; and being very great, Mr. tooth thinking it ftruck his houfe, immediately