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At E, an iron bar Nº. 1. about twenty five inches long, was inclosed nine inches deep in the stonework of the pier, separating the East arch from the arch next it towards the North: the end of this bar joins at a right angle another bar, Nº. 2, which is laid across the arch. The lightning accumulated in the iron (Nº. 1.) which was inclosed in the stonework, has burst off all the stone that surrounded it, and part of the pier adjoining. The flaw is continued downwards, as expressed in the drawing, meeting with smaller iron cramps in it's way.
At F, the next arch lying immediately under the last mentioned one, an iron was inclosed in the stone in the same manner as the bar at Nº. 1. The stone is torn off from this iron exactly in the same manner as at Nº. 1: but the damage has not reached much further than the stone which was contiguous to and covered this bar. At the bottom of this arch the sill stone, which covered some cramps of iron, is torn off from it's place.
At G, the next arch under this, the force of the lightning seems to have been much diminished, a small part of one stone only being broken.
From the wall at the West side of the South window of the belfry some stones are thrown down: one chalky stone in particular is reduced into an impalpable powder, and the wall under the West window is almost covered with the powder: this stroke seems to have been directed towards the bells one of which is very near the place damaged: the bells have not been examined; nor can they, as I am informed, without danger of shaking the spire by their motion.
