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ibever it be, it is ftill to the Royal Society we owe 
the communication of this ingenious thought, which 
the experiments of M. D’Alibard and M. De Lor 
have confirm’d. Thefe two learned men deferve that 
efteem of our nation, which their talents have a long 
time procured them. I am, with a profound refpeCt, 
S I R, 
Your moll humble, and 
obedient fervant, 
G. Mazeas, 
S I St- Germain’s, June 14, 1752. 
Read Nov. 23, TV /TONSIEUR D’Alibard, the tranllator 
XVJL of Mr. Franklin’s treatife relating to 
electricity, acknowleges, that the ingenious difcovery 
of the analogy between thunder and electrical matter 
is due to you. Since you were the firlt *, who gave 
us a clear idea of it, I ought to not be wanting to give 
you an account of the advances, which this difcovery 
has made in this country. 
On 
* In this the Abbe Mazeas has not been fufficiently well in- 
formed, as, for feveral years, this analogy has been deduced by fe- 
veral gentlemen of the Royal Society, who were engaged in thefe 
purfuits. Even the late Mr. Stephen Gray, fo early as the year 
1735, takes notice of it, and fays, 44 that this eleilric fire, by fc- 
“ veral of thefe experiments, feems to be of the fame nature with 
c< that of thunder and lightning,” See Phil. Tranf. N, 436. 
