o Proceedings relative to the Accident 
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juft rounded off. Thefe conductors were continued down the 
building by a fucceflion of Iimilar bars of iron, in general from 
fix to eight feet long, joined to one another by two hooks arid 
nuts (fee fig. 12); that is, the correfponding ends of each 
bar being formed into a hook bent at right-angles, the hook of 
the uppermoft went into a hole of the lowermoft, where it was 
fattened with a nut, and the hook of the lowermoft went into 
a iimilar hole of the bar above, where it was fixed in the fame 
manner ; the length of each of thefe joints, from nut to nut, 
was about two inches. 
Though there were eight of thefe conductors reaching above 
the chimnies, yet they had only four terminations below' . For 
the conductors to the two chimnies D and E (fig. 1. and 2.) 
being continued toward each other along the roof, united in the 
'valley over the lead gutter there (at Lin the ift, 2d, and 3d 
figures), and from that point only one conductor was continued 
down the valley toward the ground. In like manner the two con- 
ductors from the chimnies A and C (fig. 1.) united in the val- 
ley of the roof between them, and were carried down toward 
the ground as a fingle rod. AH the three conductors from the 
chimnies F, G, and H, fucceffively joined together (fee M, N, 
fig. 1.), and only a fingle rod was continued from them down 
the lower part of the building. Laftly, the conductor from 
the chimney B (fig. 1.) went down fingle all the way, without 
having formed a junction with any other. 
As the conductors, therefore, in their paffage down the 
building, were thus reduced to four, we are now to fhew their 
four terminations. And, firft, that from the chimney B, being 
the limpleft, was carried down the weftern fide of the weft 
flank, till it came very near the ground, when it entered a 
fmall channel of brick-work, through which it was continued 
under the pavement into a narrow bricked drain, leading 
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