Both the church and the house I saw shortly afterwards: the house belonged to Mr.Hood, the consul-general at Monte Video.

Some of the effects were curious: the paper, for nearly a foot on each side of the line where the bell-wires had run, was blackened.

The metal had been fused, and although the room was about fifteen feet high, the globules, dropping on the chairs and furniture, had drilled in them a chain of minute holes.

A part of the wall was shattered as if by gunpowder, and the fragments had been blown off with force sufficient to dent the wall on the opposite side of the room.

The frame of a looking-glass was blackened, and the gilding must have been volatilised, for a smelling-bottle, which stood on the chimney-piece, was coated with bright metallic particles, which adhered as firmly as if they had been enamelled.
(PLATE 17.