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fixed on pointed condu6lors as preferable td 
blunt ones ; and again, was of the Com- 
mittee in 1778, after the experiments of 
Mr. Wilson in the Pantheon. 
printed at Prague in 1751. Extra^led and tranflated 
from the Latin. Jan. 23^ 1752. Vol. xlvii. p. 345— 
351. 
An Account of Dr. Bianchini's Recueil d'Exp^ri- 
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1752. lb. p. 399—406. 
An Account of a Treatife in French^ intitled " Letfres 
fur I'Ele^ricite by the Abbe Nolet. Dec. 17, 1761. 
Vol. lii. p. 336—343. 
Suggeftions concerning the preventing the Mifchiefs 
which happen to Ships and their Mafts by Lightning ; in 
a Letter to George Lord Anson, Firft Lord of the Ad- 
miralty. Dec. 1762, lb. py 629 — 635. 
Obfervations on the E{Fe6ls of Lightning; with an Ac- 
count of the Apparatus propofed to prevent its Mifchiefs 
to Buildings, more particularly to Powder Mills. Being 
Anfwers to certain QueiHons propofed by M, Calan- 
nvnui^ Geneva, June 28, I764. Vol. liv. p. 201— 
227. Including an Account of the Mifchief St, Bride's 
Steeple fuftained by Lightning on the i8th of June 
1764. 
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