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veral electrical snaps, during, or rather at the end of, a thunder storm, from no 

 other apparatus than an iron curtain-rod, one end of which he put into the neck 

 of a glass phial, and held this phial in his hand. To the other end of the iron 

 he fastened 3 needles with some silk. This phial, supporting the rod, he held 

 in one hand, and drew snaps from the rod with a finger of his other. This ex- 

 periment was not made on any eminence, but in the garden of a gentleman, at 

 whose house he then was. 



Dr. Bevis observed, at Mr. Cave's at St. John's gate, nearly the same pheno- 

 mena as Mr. Canton. 



Trifling as the effects here mentiont^d are, when compared with those which 

 we have received from Paris and Berlin, they are the only ones that the last 

 summer here has produced; and as they were made by persons worthy of 

 credit, they tend to establish the authenticity of those transmitted from our cor- 

 respondents. 



XCVII. On the Success of Inoculation at Salisbury, By Mr. Brown, Apothe- 

 cary there, p. 570. ^^^, j,^ . 



From the 13th of August to the beginning of February had been inoculated, 

 in this city and neighbourhood, 422 persons. On 5 or 6 of these it had no 

 effect, though on one the experiment was tried a second time. Of this whole 

 number 4 died ; one of which was a patient of Mr. B.'s, who, he thinks, did 

 not do justice to this method; for the day on which the operation was performed, 

 the patient's blood had been heated violently by exercise, and suddenly chilled 

 again, by putting on clean linen, just before the operation was performed; 

 which he apprehends, was receiving the infection in an inflamed state of blood; 

 but with this he was not the least acquainted, till about 6 hours before the pa- 

 tient's death. 



END OF THE POKTY-SEVENTH VOLUME OP THE ORIGINAL. 



/. Of an extraordinary Stream of Wind, which shot through part of the Parishes 

 of Termonomungan and Urney, in the County of Tyrone, on JVednesday, 

 Oct. 11, 1752. Bij JVm. Henry, D.D., Rector of the Parish of Urney. 

 p. 1. Vol. XLVlil. 



The air for the whole day was serene and calm ; sometimes a gentle breeze 

 from the s.e. About 4 in the afternoon, the sky seemed to open; and there 

 was a flash of lightning from the s.e. Half an hour after, thunder was heard 



