250 Mr. Lzr' Account of tbe Efi s of 
but it is alfo melted in a remoter part ; which fems to fhew, that’ 
it was owing to partial defects in the wire : and if the fluid had 
quitted the conductor, it would naturally have paffed off by the ^ 
ftaples that enter the wall, and fhewn its effects in various parts, 
as they directed. The other opinion is, that it was conducted 
down the wet roof of the kitchen, which is of fhingles, unto the 
corner, where, at d, it met with the bell-wire on the outfide of 
the wall ; when part went into the dining-room, and another 
rg into uà SISSE „and paffin ng from the firft bell to the f- 
nd; (whic! ut a foot from the“firtt, while the third is 
* — two cuia ie feet off) and by its wire was Conducted 
into the paffage to the coil, at 2, where it took to the wall; and 
paffed away. ‘The ftrokeat the front door, muft have been from 
a feparate fource : for it does not, on a minute examination, ap- 
pear probable, that it penetrated through the wall of the din- 
ing-room.at the corner, o, (where the crank of the bell wire 
is faftened to. the wall by a fmall iron nail, entering about two 
inches) and fo from that, pafied to the wire in the paffage, 
which continues from thence to the front door. Not the leaft 
fign of i injury appears upon the roof of the laundry ; nor ex- 
ternally, upon any part of the houfe. 
, , Erom.thefe obfervations we may conclude, that the manner: 
in which the bell-wires are diftributed in a houfe, is of great 
moment ; and that they ought always to be difpofed with a 
. view. to the poffibility of their becoming conductors. From 
the phaifter being deftroyed, and the bricks uninjured; it would 
fem that brick is a conductor, and therefore carried off the 
fluid without any further effet. That the points of conductors 
As be examined from time to time ; becaufe, in the ftate 
in which that of Dr, hippen’s lioufe was found, and had pro~ 
bably 
