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but Hill negative, I inful ated it again, thinking to 
keep the late up fome time longer; but, as another 
laiger and denier cloud was approaching apace towards 
toe zenith, and I had then no proper apparatus to 
prevent bad accidents, I refolved to pull the kite in. 
Accoidinglv, a gentleman, who was by me, began 
pulling it in, while I was winding up the firing. The 
other cloud was now very nearly over the kite ; and the 
gentleman who was pulling in the firing told me, that 
he had received one or two flight fhocks in his arms; 
and that, if he were to receive one more, he would cer- 
tainly let the firing go. Upon which I laid hold of the 
llring, and pulled the kite in as fall as I could, without 
any farther obfervation. When the kite was pulled in, 
it was ten minutes after four o’clock; fo that all the time 
that this experiment took up was one hour and ten mi- 
nutes. There was neither thunder or lightning per- 
ceived that day, nor indeed for fome days before or after- 
wards. 
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