, , , C 20 9 ] 
;. a d ™ ^0? n allic [uh t nces t0 have be “ 
«« i wood by ? thld r £' “ft* ,‘ h - 
bad fome indanceshere in a iLndTdonr v’h'T 
appened m July 1759, 0 f which the effefls were 
_ mmunicafed to the public in the * Philosophical 
how much larger ought to be tire metallic par of 4. 
KS W kS “ ifChirf? «£• parlt 
ekh^ofS m?™," ° r ^ a ' ld ‘ n co-^iS 
eitner Ot thele materials, were not dangerous to ordi 
n y buildings on the account you memion exLm in 
very particular and extraordinary cafes , as ’thefe fub 
ftances, when not much heated, condudt the eledtric 
But what lately 
me at -ad ,h ° n W ^ evin “ s . <0 
er cod '’ n m a PP ara,us - “fi»«y applied to wea- 
* aks ’ fllouM ne ver be truded in any building 
witnout a metallic communication from them to 
fome water, or at lead very mold ground. St Bride’s 
Steeple, one of the mod beautiful in London, 'was on 
onday, June 18, about ten minutes before three in 
the afternoon, very greatly injured, in one of the mod 
fevere thunder dorms, whichever happened here 
Fiona as^ attentive an examination, as the fteenle 
-t the prefent will admit of without fcaffoidirw 'it 
* See Volume LI. 
VoL. L IV. £ c 
appears 
