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commandments are painted, which was in this wood- 
en frame, is torn from the frame on the two fides 
of it next the holdfaft, and is rent befides in feveral 
places. 
The whole appearance of the damage done to this 
church very much favours the conjecture of that 
fagacious obferver of nature, Dr. Franklin, who 
thinks it probable, that, by means of metallic rods or 
wires reaching from the roofs to the ground, any 
buildings may be fecured from the terrible effects of 
lightening. 
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