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floor near it : it then made its way, by partial conductors, 
down into the cellar to the leaden pipe, which conveyed 
water from the main, and in its way rent the houfe in 
various parts, fo as to make it fcarcely habitable. It left 
marks of fufion on different metallic utenfils, fome of 
which I have now in my poffeffion. If the conductor 
from the triblet had happened to have been made by a 
compleat and fufficient metallic communication with the 
earth, all parts of the houfe below would have been pre- 
ferved; but the parts above would have been equally 
rent and dellroyed. 
I now beg leave to make a few remarks on Mr. Wil- 
son’s paper, intitled, New Experiments and Obfervations > 
on the Nature and Ufe of Conductors. In p. 2. Mr. Wil- 
son mentions, that he had declared his diffent in the 
year 1 77 1 againft pointed conductors: I will here copy 
part of his diffent as it is in Phil. Tranf. vol. lxiii. p. - 
48. His words are, Every point, as fuch, I confider as 
“ foliciting the lightning, and by that means not only 
u contributing to increafe the quantity of every aCtual 
“ difcharge, but alfo frequently occafioning a difcharge 
“ where it might not otherwife have happened. Whereas, , 
“ if inftead of pointed we make ufe of blunted conduc- 
14 tors, thofe will. as. effectually anfwer the purpofe of 
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