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Ohfervatlons on Ek£Indfy^ 



been related. Happily for the family, none of them wer6 

 elTentially injured. Mrs. Joy, who was in the chamber, over 

 the place where the lightning entered, was preffed down, as 

 with a heavy weight, and experienced a confiderable degree of 



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numbnefs till the next day. . , 



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With great afFedlion and efleem, 

 ^ I am, Sir, ' 



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Your moll obedient humble fervant, 



JOHN LATHROP. 



Rev, Trefident Willard^ 



Obfervatlons on Eh&ricHy^ and an improved mode of conJiruBtng 

 Ughtning Rods, In a letter^ from the Hon, LOAMMI 



BALDWIN, F.^.^. to theRev,]O^Y^Yl WIL LARD, i>.Z>. 



L. L. D, vice frefdcnt of the American Academy of Arts and 



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Sciences 



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SIR, 



Wohurnyjan, 25, 1797, 





JL KE partial efFedls of the ele<flrical rods, which have 

 been ereded for the protcc^^ion of buildings, &c. have led me 

 to think, that they are not upon the befl conftruaion, efpccially 

 thofe that terminate in quo, point 



The philofophy of elccflricity feems to be enveloped in 

 much obfcurity, Ekarics and non cledrics exift in nature x 



pofitive 



