JOURNAL 



Of 



natltral philosophy, chemistry, 



THE ARTS. 



DECEMBER^ 1810^ 



ARTICLE 1. 



9n the Electric Column, • By J. A. Db Luc, Esq, E.K.S* 



Part IIL 



'boncernin^ some Meteorological Phenomena^ to the better 

 hnovoledge of which it may lead as an Aerial Electfbscojpe, 



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HEN, in our researches, we tiave in view some great Necessity of 



and determined object, we are not only more assiduous in circumspectf- 

 1 • 1 . , - on m examm« 



our endeavours to approach it, but more attentive not to be ing phenome« 



misled in the road, and less dispbsed to be satisfied with "*" 

 mere surmises, while we perceive that some real discovery 

 tnay be obtained by more circumspection. I shall therefore 

 explain first, why every new electric phenomenon, which we 

 Encounter in the course of our experiments, must be atten- 

 tively pursued and analysed in itself, and not connected with 

 gratuitous hypotheses; for fear of losing a thread, which 

 might lead us in the labyrinth of the physical causes acting 

 on onr globe, among which the electric fluid holds a high 

 rank ; as will appear by the following great object concern- 

 ing \.\i\% fluid i on which natural philosophers have not yet 

 sufficiently fixed their attention, though it is explained 

 in my former works. 

 Vox..XXVILNo.124-^Dec. 1810. R It 



