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30’ ' UNCOMMON STRENGTH.
shivered to atoms, and the lead of one of the chamber win*
dows melted. The roof of a barn, a stable, and several
out-houses, were blown in ; and the roof of the church
slightly struck. Many trees torn up by the roots, and one
apple tree carried away 24 feet from where it stood. The
lightning continued very vivid, and with very little inter-
mission the whole night. As a circumstance singularly
coincident with the above, on the 27th of the same month
of November, in 1723, there was a similar storm in that
neighbourhood ; when Bishop Kidder and his lady were
killed in the Palace of Wells, by the falling in of one of the
chimnies, which buried them both in the ruins.
UNCOMMON STRENGTH.
Count Orlow, the Russian Minister, so famous under
the late Empress Catherine, was at Rome some years
since, when he was much at the house of the Marchioness
Gentili Bocca Paduli; where being one day disposed to
exhibit some of.his performances in this way, he took up
several pieces of chrystals, iron, and other hard substances,
which he broke between his fingers with the utmost facility.
Ke afterwards placed an apple between two fingers only,
and compressing them, the apple bursting immediately,
flew about the apartment in all directions. Another time,
he made the experiment before the Duke of Gloucester,
brother to his Majesty ; and though one of the fragments
flew very forcibly in his Highness’s face, and the com-
pany, in general, testified their regret at the circumstance,
Prince Orlow, it was remarked, whose manners were
nearly as brutal as his strength, never attempted the least
apology ; 'and the relator remarks, that the scoundrel who
had strangled his own Sovereign, the unfortunate Emperor,
Peter, could not be supposed to entertain much rpspect
for the brother of a King 1
LONGEVITY.
shivered to atoms, and the lead of one of the chamber win*
dows melted. The roof of a barn, a stable, and several
out-houses, were blown in ; and the roof of the church
slightly struck. Many trees torn up by the roots, and one
apple tree carried away 24 feet from where it stood. The
lightning continued very vivid, and with very little inter-
mission the whole night. As a circumstance singularly
coincident with the above, on the 27th of the same month
of November, in 1723, there was a similar storm in that
neighbourhood ; when Bishop Kidder and his lady were
killed in the Palace of Wells, by the falling in of one of the
chimnies, which buried them both in the ruins.
UNCOMMON STRENGTH.
Count Orlow, the Russian Minister, so famous under
the late Empress Catherine, was at Rome some years
since, when he was much at the house of the Marchioness
Gentili Bocca Paduli; where being one day disposed to
exhibit some of.his performances in this way, he took up
several pieces of chrystals, iron, and other hard substances,
which he broke between his fingers with the utmost facility.
Ke afterwards placed an apple between two fingers only,
and compressing them, the apple bursting immediately,
flew about the apartment in all directions. Another time,
he made the experiment before the Duke of Gloucester,
brother to his Majesty ; and though one of the fragments
flew very forcibly in his Highness’s face, and the com-
pany, in general, testified their regret at the circumstance,
Prince Orlow, it was remarked, whose manners were
nearly as brutal as his strength, never attempted the least
apology ; 'and the relator remarks, that the scoundrel who
had strangled his own Sovereign, the unfortunate Emperor,
Peter, could not be supposed to entertain much rpspect
for the brother of a King 1
LONGEVITY.