•2j$  Papers  relative  to  an  Accident 
But  this  and  the  eighteenth  experiment  were  repeated 
many  times  afterwards,  for  many  days  together,  and 
when  the  Rate  of  the  air  at  each  trial  was  very  different; 
on  which  accounts  the  refults  of  thofe  experiments  va- 
ried as  follows. 
Sharp  point. 
2^  inches. 
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Immediately  after  relating  the  nineteenth  experiment, 
mention  was  made  of  the  fenfation  or  blow  that  was  re- 
ceived by  a perfon  who  had  brought  his  finger  into  con- 
tact with  the  pointed  conductor  at  the  time  the  ftroke 
happened.  The  experiment  was  repeated  here  with  the 
rounded  end;  but  the  fenfation  or  blow  received  (as  well 
as  the  explofion)  was  confiderably  weaker  in  this  cafe. 
exp.  xxiv.  When  the  twenty-third  experiment  was 
repeated,  and  the  rounded  end  flruck  at  three  quarters 
of  an  inch,  the  fame  kind  of  fpark  appeared  between 
the  two  cramps  as  in  the  twentieth  experiment  when 
the  point  was  ufed;  but  in  this  experiment  with  the 
rounded 
Rounded  end. 
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