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Wonderful Nature Of Lightning


If two persons, standing in a room, looking different ways, and a loud

clap of thunder, accompanied with zigzag lightning, happen, they will

both distinctly see the flash at the same time; not only the

illumination, but the very form of the lightning itself, and every

angle it makes in its course will be as distinctly perceptible, as

though they had both looked directly at the cloud from whence it

proceeded. If a person happened at that time to be looking on a book,

or other object, which he held in his hand, he would distinctly see

the form of the lightning between him and the object at which he

looked. This property seems peculiar to lightning, as it does not

apply to any other kind of fire whatever.



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