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LXXXVIII. ExtraSi of a Letter fro7n John 
Lining, M. D. of Charles Town, in 
South Carolina, to Charles Pinckney, Efq, 
in London : With his Anfwers to fever al 
Queries fent to hi?n concerning his Ex peri- 
ment of EleEiricity with a Kite . 
Charles Town, January 14, i"54. 
Head May 4>XNclofed I fend you anfwers to the que- 
1?54 ‘ ries, which you fent me concerning the 
experiment with the kite. 
Since I made that experiment laft May, I have 
not had an opportunity of making any more, having 
been confined all the fummer and autumn with the 
gout, which perhaps prevented my meeting with the 
fame unhappy fate with profeffor Richman. In the 
London Daily Advertifer, Thurfday 27 September 
laft, there is a more particular account of that un- 
happy accident. From that account it appears, that 
the profeffor had a wire, which came down from the 
iron rod, eredted on his houfe, through the gallery- 
ceiling, to an iron bar, which flood in a glafs vef- 
fel, which was filled with water and filings of brafs ; 
and that the profeffor flood fo near that iron rod, that 
his face was within a foot of it. Now if there was no 
wire, that went from that iron rod, or from any part 
of the wire above it, into the earth, it is no great 
wonder, that the profeffor was killed. I fhould be 
extremely glad to be informed, whether the iron rod 
upon his houfe, at the time the experiment was 
made;, 
