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damage has been reported in Georgetown, where con- 
siderable prote¢tion is afforded by the large number of 
Telephone, Telegraph, and Eleétric Light wires. 
Very few buildings are proteéted by Lightning Conduc- 
tors, although the planting interest have gone to the cost 
and trouble of affixing Condu€tors to most of their Estates’ 
Chimneys, allowing them however to take care of them- 
selves, ever after. 
Magazines for powder &c., are in some cases fitted 
with Lightning Conduétors, whilst some are yet ex- 
isting without them, The Lighthouse it is true has 
what appears to be a protector; but it is utterly 
useless, from the faét that the conne€ting links are 
insulated by whitewash from one another. Unless the 
Conduétor has a clear path to the ground, (where it 
should be attached to a good size Copper-plate, and 
properly embedded,) it is useless. As yet no harm has 
attended either of the cases referred to, nor the many 
buildings of prominence still unprotected in the city. 
There however still remains the possibility and uncer- 
tainty. Will that uncertainty lead to a remedy? 
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