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ABOUT ten o'clock in the evening of July 23 a party of four of us were standing at the head of the avenue leading to this house, when we saw a feebly-luminous flash appear on the ground at a distance of some thirty yards down the avenue. It rushed towards us with a wave-like motion, at a rate which I estimate at thirty miles an hour, and seemed to envelope for an instant. My left hand, which was hanging by my side, experienced precisely the same sensation as I have felt in receiving a shock from a weak galvanic battery. About three minutes afterwards we heard a peal of thunder, but, though we waited for some time, we neither saw nor heard anything further.
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WATT, J. Electrical Phenomenon. Nature 32, 316–317 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032316d0
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