140 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



in my diredlons, I fhall, on the leaft inti- 

 mation, endeavour to fupply the defedl. 



I am, &c. 



Report on Dr Franklin's Method of fecuring 

 Btdldings^ <6^^, from the Mifchkfs of Light' 

 ■ning^ h^ ProfefTor Ru ss E l . 



THE Eoaor's defcription of his me- 

 thod is the neatefl and moft diflindl ima- 

 ginable. Nobody can be at a lofs to put it 

 in pradlice. Two remarks only have occur- 

 red to me, which I fhall lay before the fo- 

 cicty. One is, That when a building, 

 propofcd to be guarded in this manner, 

 is partly covered with lead, or has the 

 water conveyed from the roof to the 

 grouiid in leaden pipes ; the lead, fo far 

 as it goes, may eafily be made to fupply 

 the place of the iron conductor. This 

 would be done by conducting the iron ' 

 rods from the top to the neareft part of 

 the lead, and there connedling the iron 

 with the lead, by means of folder, in the 



fame 



