Chagrined a little that we have hitherto been 

 able to produce nothing in the way of ufe to 

 mankind; and the hot weather coming on, when 

 electrical experiments are not fo agreeable, it is 

 propofed to put an end to them for this feafon, 

 fomewhat humoroufly, in a party of pleafure on 

 the banks of Skuylkii. Spirits, at the fame time, 

 are to be fired by a fpark fent from fide to fide 

 through the river, without any other conductor 

 than the water; an experiment which we fome 

 time fince performed, to the amazement of many. 

 A turkey is to be killed for our dinner by the 

 electrical j hock, and roafted by the electrical jack, 

 before a fire kindled by the electrified bottle; 

 when the healths of all the famous electricians 

 in England, Holland, France, and Germany are 

 to be drank in electrified bumpers, under difcharge 

 of guns from the electrical battery. 



BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Letter to Peter Collin- 

 son, London, April 29, 1749. 



