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Report from the Committee appointed to confder of 
the properef means to fecure the Cathedral of 
St. Paul’s the EffeBs of Light?iing. Ad- 
drejfed to James Weft, Efquire^ Prefde?it of the 
■ Royal Society » 
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Read June 8, A $, in confequence of a letter addrefled 
1769* £\ fQ fj-jg Royal Society from the Dean 
and Chapter of St. Paul’s, the Society did us the ho- 
nour to appoint us a Committee to examine that mag- 
nificent ftru<fture, and, as far as our experience 
would enable us, to prevent mifchief thereto from 
lightning, by a properly difpofed apparatus ; we lay 
before you the following as our opinion thereupon, 
to be communicated, if you think proper, to the 
Royal Society. And here, Sir, you will permit us 
to take notice of, and acknowledge, the obligations 
we were under to Mr. Myine, a very worthy mem- 
ber of this Society, who is furveyor of St. Paul’s, 
and attended feveral meetings of the Committee. 
This gentleman furnifhed us with a great variety of 
information, in relation to the ftrudture of the feveral 
parts of this fabric, which, without his aftiftance, 
could not eafily have been obtained. 
As all metals are now known readily to condu( 3 : 
or tranfmit the eledric fluid, or, which is the fame 
thing, lightning, through them j the large quantity 
of lead, and fomc iron, difpofed in different parts of 
St. PiHil’s church, will, by having its feveral parts 
conneded. 
