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St. Paul’s church to foroe feet below the furface of 
the ground. 
The Comniittee then turned their thoughts to- 
wards the two towers at the weft end of the church ; 
and here they beg leave to oblerve, that in one of 
thefe towers, between the pine apple and the leaden 
bell-ftiaped covering near it, placed at the top of each 
of thefe towers, there is no metallic communicatson 
deferving notice, till you come to the lead on the roof 
of the church. This diftance is eighty-eight feet. 
To this tower, therefore, it is propofed to adapt a rod 
or bar of iron, not lets than an inch and a (Quarter • 
fi^uare, in iuch a manner that one end of the bar 
ftiould be in contadl with the metal communicating 
with the pine apple on its top, which is of copper, and 
the other end with the lead on the roof of the 
church. 
In the middle of the other tower, in which the great 
bell is hung, there is an iron ftair-cafe of confiderable 
height, which is placed in the middle of it, in order 
for the more conveniently coming at the clock-work. 
The top of this ftair-cafe is at no great diftance from 
the leaden covering upon the top of the tower i but 
from the bottom of this ftair-cafe to the roof of the 
church, between which there is no metallic commu- 
nication, the diftance is confiderable, not lefs than 
forty feet. 1 he Committee recommend, therefore, 
that a bar of iron, of an inch and a quarter fquare, 
may be placed between the pine-apple, or the lead in 
contadl with it, and the upper part of this ftair-cafe ; 
and that another iron bar, limilar to this laft, may be 
adjufted fo, as to pafs from the bottom of the ftair- 
caie to the lead on the roof of the church. The roof, 
as 
