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conducted with perfect fafety to the building, &c. 

 and that no other part of it would have been at all 

 affected. As the effects of this ftroke fo exactly 

 correfpond with thofe many times before obferved by 

 Dr. Franklin, I think we mall fcarce ever meet with a 

 greater proof of the utility of his metallick conductors 3 

 .and cannot help exprefling a iincere wifh, that build- 

 ers, and perfons engaged in the erection of public edi- 

 fices, &c. might be prevailed with, to make a re- 

 gular communication of metal, from the top of fuch 

 buildings to a confiderable depth into the earth, and 

 of fuch a diameter and kind, as may be fufficient to 

 fecure both the buildings, and the lives of thofe, 

 who may happen to be in them. The poor man 

 deftroyed by this accident, was fitting at the time 

 on a fhort ladder, which lay horizontally on, the 

 pavement, with his back again ft the door. The 

 lightning flew from the middle bo'ii, and flruck 

 him on and under his left ear, entered his neck, 

 making a wound half an inch long, raifed in a bur 

 and burnt, paffed down his back, which it turned 

 black as ink, down his left arm, melting the ftud 

 in his fhirt ileeve ; the (tone in which, as well as the 

 filver, feems to be a little affected. Hence it flew 

 into his body, which it burnt in a hard fpot, re- 

 fembling fcorched leather, paffing through it into 

 his right leg, and breaking out a little above the 

 ancle , making a large wound, and another bur, 

 burnt as before, with two others fmaller a little be- 

 low it, and fome ftill fmaller in his feet. His 

 cloaths and hair were much burnt, but his ftock, 

 fhoe, and knee-buckles, the metal buttons on his 

 coat and waiftcoat, a /hilling, which he had in the 



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