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it intirelj away. I fhould apprehend likewife, 
that the ruft obferved to lie upon the pavement, 
ihad been beaten off from the bars, by the hail, 
or wafhed off, by the rain, which could not hap- 
pen to the end of that before mentioned ; it being 
covered by a ftone, which compleatly ffieltered it 
from the weather. Had it been exploded from 
the bars, by fo violent a firoke of lightning, as 
hath been fuppofed to pals through them, I have 
fome doubt, whether much of it, if any, would 
have been difcovered. Thirdly, in fo great a 
firoke, the pointed ornaments of copper, upon the 
crols, would probably have been affeCted ; perhaps 
melted down ; but thele do not appear to have 
received the leaf! injury. I mud further remark,, 
that as the conductors, on which thefe appearances 
were obferved, were neither of them in contact 
with the lead-work below them ; and there were 
two other conductors of equal fiz,e, forming a re- 
gular communication of metal throughout ; it 
ieems probable, that the electricity would have 
paffed in the two laft mentioned ; and that thofe 
fuppofed to be fo much affected , would have con- 
ducted very little, if indeed any part at all of the 
(hock. The improbability, I believe I might ven- 
ture to fay the impoflibility, of thofe bars, which 
are four inches broad and half an inch thick, 
being heated to a red heat, by lightning, appears to 
me ftill more plainly, when I confider, that in a 
ltroke, which fell upon the weather fane in the 
fpire of St. bride’s church, in Fleet-jftreet, the 
iron fpindle, which fupported it, being twenty feet 
long, and two inches in diameter, and the lower ten 
feet! 
