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ftood in a common glafs-bottle^ which 

 I held in my hand. 



I ufed alfo another rod about three 

 feet long, fharpened in like manner at 

 one end ; which flood with the other end 

 in a glafs-tube, which was (luck in the 

 ground. I began upon the Calton-hill. 



The lightening and fire in the air a- 

 bounded greatly ; and yet it was fome 

 time before any thing elfe appeared. At 

 lad, fome rain began to fall^ and the air 

 turned moifter ; then fire appeared upon 

 the extremities of each of the rods in a 

 fmall pretty blaze, very like the fire 

 which is difcharged from the point of a 

 fword in the dark, when the perfon that 

 holds it is cleclrified, and ftands upon 

 glafs or rofin 5 or like that which appears 

 upon any fharp point, when prefented to 

 an eledrified gun-barrel, but in greater 

 quantity. I touched the long rod with 

 my finger ; but had no fparks from it. 

 The fliort rod was accidentally taken out, 

 of its tube, and yet continued to burn and 

 blaze as formerly. In like manner the 



flame 



