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ABOUT 10 a.m. of the 6th instant two of the labourers on this farm were sitting on the ground (with their backs against a clover haystack and their faces towards the north, having in front of them and on their left a wood) engaged in eating their lunch. It had been raining and thundering for about half an hour, but not heavily, until suddenly—in the words of one of the men—“a flash of lightning came right at us as if it were shot out of a gun”. This man had his knife up to his mouth at the time in the act of eating, and he describes his sensation as a feeling of nausea in his throat and chest, and also that both he and his companion felt an actual push against their shoulders, which swayed and shook them to a considerable extent from the direction of the flash. The other man was blinded for about five minutes, and they were both much dazed for some time. Also they both describe having heard a sharp whiz somewhat resembling the quick escape of steam from an escape valve on an engine. For two days after they both suffered from severe headache.
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HALL, A. Lightning. Nature 24, 261 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024261a0
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