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Received Nov. 12, 1772. 
XX. A Letter ft 'om Patrick Brydone, Efq^ 
to Sir John Pringle, Bart. Pref. R. S . 
containing an Account of a fiery Meteor , 
fieen on the io th of February l aft ; and 
alfio of fome new electrical Experiments. 
Dated Eccles, (in the Shire of Berwick) 
7 July, i77 2 - 
s 1 R, 
Read Feb. 4, y* BOUT fourteen years ago, I took 
i 773 * j~\ the liberty of communicating to 
you fome electrical experiments ; which, you 
thinking worthy of the attention of the Royal 
Society, were pleafed to lay before that relpeCtable 
body; and thofe gentlemen did me the honour of 
publifhing them in the firft and fecond part of the 
fiftieth Volumes of the Philofophical TranfaCtions. 
Since that time, I have often been engaged in ope- 
rations of the fame kind, fome of which, parti- 
cularly the experiments with the ele&rical kite, 
I thought to have troubled you with but as thefe 
were made in foreign countries, and as I was in- 
formed that fomething of the fame kind had been 
done in England, I fufpected that vou might al- 
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