Autobiography and memoirs . fire was seen blazing at the top of thecastle at 5 I was roused about , and inanother ten minutes the great gas-pipe and gaselierhad fallen in with a perfect avalanche of fire upon thefloor of the hall, and the flames were rising high abovethe roof. My opinion is that lightning had struck the gas-pipe at the top of the hall, that at the same moment itinjured the pipe and lit the gas, and that the mainbody of the electric discharge was carried off by theexternal gas-pipe as a conductor to the ground. . The crash did awake several people, but theyattributed i
Autobiography and memoirs . fire was seen blazing at the top of thecastle at 5 I was roused about , and inanother ten minutes the great gas-pipe and gaselierhad fallen in with a perfect avalanche of fire upon thefloor of the hall, and the flames were rising high abovethe roof. My opinion is that lightning had struck the gas-pipe at the top of the hall, that at the same moment itinjured the pipe and lit the gas, and that the mainbody of the electric discharge was carried off by theexternal gas-pipe as a conductor to the ground. . The crash did awake several people, but theyattributed it, as I did, to an unusual gust of impression, therefore, is that the electric dischargewas not of a powerful kind, but that it was somethingof the nature of those fire-balls and other electric appear-ances which were noticed the same night near London. Do the facts above described enable you to formany opinion as to the probability of my theory ?Does lightning ever behave or produce the effects Ihave supposed ?.
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