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LETTER II. 
S I R, 
I H A V E received your two laft ; and can affure you, it 
is with great pleafure I anfwer any queftion you fliall 
be pleafed to afk. In anfwer to your firfl and fecond 
queries; videlicet^ What is the breadth of the houfe? 
and what is the diftance between the extreme part of the 
chimney iji) and the condudtor ? The drawing I fent 
you is a fcale of one-tenth of an inch to a foot, or nearly 
3d. The iron rod in the pipe is only a large 
rujly /pit put in, a few inches, pro tempore. The place 
where the leaden pipe is burften, is even with the point 
of the fpit ; very little melted, but broke open with the 
explolion. The pipe is bent outward, about a foot at the 
lower end, to carry the water from the houfe ; the hole 
in which, and the point of the fpit, are near the middle 
^ of that projecting part of the pipe. No vilible alteration 
appeared on the rufty fpit by the lightning having palTed 
through it. The lower end of it lays on.^ not in the 
earth. 1 am,- 8cc. 
(a) Then, the breadth of the houfe is about twenty-nine feet, and the 
d'lftance between the fartheft corner of the chimney {b) and the conduftor, 
about forty-nine or fifty feet. . w. henley. 
THESE 
