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being properly accommodated with a tail, loop, and 
firing, will rife in the air like thofe made of paper ; 
but this, being of filk, is fitter to bear the wet and 
wind of a thunder-guff without tearing. 
To the top of the upright flick of the crofs is to 
be fixed a very fharp-pointed wire, rifing a foot or 
more above the wood. 
To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be 
tied a filk riband ; and where the twine and filk join, 
a key may be faften’d. 
The kite is to be raifed, when a thunder-guff ap- 
pears to be coming on, (which is very frequent in 
this country) and the perfon, who holds the firing, 
muft fiand within a door, or window, or under fome 
cover, fo that the filk riband may not be wet ; and 
care muft be taken, that the twine does not touch 
the frame of the door or window. 
As foon as any of the thunder-clouds come over 
the kite, the pointed wire will draw the ele&ric fire 
from them ; and the kite, with all the twine, will 
be eledtrified ; and the loofe filaments of the twine 
will fiand out every way, and be attracted by an ap- 
proaching finger. 
When the rain has wet the kite and twine, fo that 
it can condudf the eiedlric fire freely, you will find 
it ftream out plentifully from the key on the approach 
of your knuckle. 
At this key the phial may be charged ; and from 
eledtric fire thus obtain’d fpirits may be kindled, and 
all the other eledtrical experiments be performed, 
which are ufually done by the help of a rubbed glafs 
globe or tube, and thereby the famenefs of the elec- 
tric 
