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XXXVI. Reafons for diffenting from the Report of the 
Committee appointed to confider of Mr. Wilfon’s Expe- 
riments', including Remarks on fome Experiments ex- 
hibited by Mr. Nairne. By Dr. Mufgrave, F. R. S. 
Read June 25, T DO not find thatDr.FRANKLiN, in any of the 
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paffages where he fpeaks of the efficacy 
of fharp-pointed conductors to prevent eleCtrical explo- 
fions, has expreffed any doubt of their being univerfally 
preferable for this purpofe to thofe which have a blunt 
or fpherical termination. The fame obfervation may be 
made of the other gentlemen who are the advocates for 
his doCtrine. It may therefore be affirmed, that both he 
and they mean to affert an univerfal proportion, “ That 
“ ffiarp points will, in all cafes, draw off the electrical 
“ fluid ffiently within the diftance at which rounded 
“ ends will explode ; or, at leaft, that the former fort will 
“ in no cafe receive an explofion at a greater diftance 
“ than the latter.” I think it neceffary to obferve, that, 
though I diffent from this doctrine, I do not mean to 
affert the contrary univerfal propofition, but only to deny 
the univerfality of that afferted by Dr. franklin, which 
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