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conduced with perfed: fafety to the building, &c. 
and that no other part of it would have been at all 
affeded. As the effeds of this ftroke fo exadly 
correfpond with thofe many times before obferved by 
Dr. Franklin, I think we fliall fcarce ever meet with a 
greater proof of the utility of his metallick conductors; 
and cannot help exprelfing a lincere with. that build- 
ers, and perfons engaged in theeredion of public edi- 
fices, &c. might be prevailed with, to make a re- 
gular communication of metal, from the top of fuch 
buildings to a confiderable depth into the earth, and 
of fuch a diameter and kind, as may be fufficient to 
fecure both the buildings, and the lives of thofe, 
who may happen to be in them. The poor man 
deftroyed by this accident, was fitting at the time 
on a fhort ladder, which lay horizontally on the 
pavement, with his back againA the door. The 
lightning flew from the middle boa, and flruck 
him on and under his left ear, entered his neck, 
making a wound half an inch long, raifed in a bur 
and burnt, palled down his back, which it turned 
black as ink, down his left arm, melting the fiud 
in his fhirt fleeve ; the ftone in which, as well as the 
filver, feems to be a little afiedted. Hence it flew 
into his body, which it burnt in a hard fpot, re- 
fembling fcorched leather, palling through it into 
his right leg, and breaking out a little above the 
ancle ; making a large wound, and another bur, 
burnt as before, with two others fmaller a little be- 
low it, and lome Hill fmaller in his feet. His 
cloaths and hair were much burnt, but his flock, 
Ihoe, and knee-buckles, the metal' buttons on his 
coat and waiftcoat, a {hilling, which he had in the 
left 
