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ral, as the verger’s letter related them to me. 
Mr. Delaval and myfelf attended, about a week 
afterwards, to obferve them, and their particular 
ft being much blacker ; particularly on the nut : ; and (crews : the 
rult lying in greater quantities on the pavement, And the ex- 
treme pent of the conductor that goes into the water trunk , learned 
like a pi ce of iron newly taken out of a forge by a fmith, with- 
out working it on the anvil. 
N. B. Mr. Gould has iince added to the account in his 
letter, fome circumflances which 1 apprehend ought not to be 
omitted. He fays, that w here the end of the conductor, on 
the Faff- fide, points towards the water trunk, a (lone fur- 
rounds part of it, leaving an interval, half an inch wide or 
more, between them, and about four or five inches long, 
which is a little more than the breadth of the condudtor. That 
this interval was filled up with dirt, and had been fo for fome 
time, occafioned by frequent fhovvers of rain wafhing the 
pavement in the ftone-gallery. That, after the lightn ng hap- 
pened, he obferved a hole was made through the dirt , one quar- 
ter of an inch in diameter , and about two inches in length. That 
the hole was cl.ofe to the iron ; and that, upon flooping down 
his head, he perceived a very difagreeable finell of fulphur from 
the flone, dirt, and conductor, particularly the laft. 
Upon hearing this account, Mr. Delaval and myfelf, a 
few oays ago, went and examined tr.e condudlors again ; 
but more carefully than before. For, upon caufing the itone 
to be removed, which covered the top of the water trunk, 
we had an opportunity of examining near two feet more of 
the iron which poin s to the water trunk, than w'e could per- 
ceive before this ftone was removed. When we obferved, 
that the conducing iron did not touch the lead. We like- 
wife obferved, that there was a very thick coat of rufit all over 
that part of the iron ; particularly at the end next the lead , where 
the water entered the trunk. 
As the neceffity of attending to thefe circumflances will 
be obvious to any one, who is but in the leaft degree acquainted 
with thefe refearches, the danger of negletling them will be feen : 
in the ftrongeft lights by the .gentlemen of the committee who recom- 
mended the conductors for the fecurity of that Cathedral. 
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