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VIL. An po f a very curious Appearance of the elebtri- 
cal Fluid, produced by raifing an etectrical Kite in the Time of 
a Thunder-fhower. In a Letter from Loam: BALDWIN, 
Efq; F. A. A. to the Rev. Josera WILLARD, Prefident 
of 4 vaa at Cambridge, and V. Pre ics A. és 
REVEREND srr, 
'E July, 1771, I conftru&ed an ele&rical kite ; the ftem 
of which was about four and an half feet leng, and the 
^ "breadth, at the extremities of the bow, about two feet : fhe 
under fide was covered with filk. About eight or ten wires, 
of the eee and length of worfted knitting-needles, ground at 
f their ends to a fharp point, were, at their oppofite ends, 
dsfcrtedlinto- the ftem, at equal diftances, from one extremity 
‘to the other. A very fmall wire was placed along the ftem, 
with a turn round each point : and each end of the wire, paff- 
iag through the ftem, was continued, entwined round the bel- 
ly-band, until they met, and communicated with the main 
flying line, by which the kite was railed. This line was a 
-fmall, bard cord, and was foaked in water, previous to raifing 
the kite. I alfo prepared a filk line, in erder to infulate "d 
its "d I had raifed it to the beight intended. | 
n was to make fome experiments in the time öf " 
r net whenever ye. HMM fhould offet. 
sl wad Be after, there appeared a very he:wy thunder-fhower 
ig from the N. W. attended with ‘a violent wind, which 
was “then oul evident by the motions and convulfions or "e d 
. Circumflances, by this time, became favo rable for | 
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