820 Dr. musgkave’s Reafons for dijfenting 
high up into the air, by fixing them upon every angle of 
a building, and making them project in every direction ? 
Ought this to be advifed while there is ftill a doubt of 
the poflibility of their doing mifchief? And can the 
committee, therefore, be perfectly jufiified for giving 
fuch a decided preference to the ufe of fharp conductors, 
in defiance of numerous experiments, not one of which 
they have attempted to controvert? 
I have now done with the report of the committee, 
and fhall next proceed to enquire whether, as fome gen- 
tlemen apprehend, the termination of conductors is a 
matter of indifference : but this I muft referve for the 
fubjeCt of a future paper. 
APPENDIX. 
I think it neceffary to apprize the reader, that the 
foregoing remarks were drawn up before Mr. nairne’s 
paper appeared, and are therefore to be confidered as re- 
lating only to his experiments. 
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