Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America . es on thecaufe of the former \ and at the fame time, to propofe famerational experiments iji order to fecure ourfalves, and thofethirtgs on which its force is often dire died, from its perni-cious effeBs-y a circuniflance of no fmall importance to thepublick, and therefore worthy of the utmoft attention. It has, indeed, been of late the fafaion to afcribe everygrand or umfual operation of nature, fuch as lightening andearthquakes, to eleBricity -, not, as one would imagine, from themanner of reafaning on thefe occa
Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America . es on thecaufe of the former \ and at the fame time, to propofe famerational experiments iji order to fecure ourfalves, and thofethirtgs on which its force is often dire died, from its perni-cious effeBs-y a circuniflance of no fmall importance to thepublick, and therefore worthy of the utmoft attention. It has, indeed, been of late the fafaion to afcribe everygrand or umfual operation of nature, fuch as lightening andearthquakes, to eleBricity -, not, as one would imagine, from themanner of reafaning on thefe occafons, that the authors of thefefchemes have, difcovered any ccnneBion betwixt the caufe aiideffeSi, or faw in what manner they were related *, but, as it-would feem, merely hecaufe they were unacquainted with anyother agent, of which it could not poftively he faid the con-nection was impojjible. But of thefe, and many other interejling circum/lances, thereader will be more fatisfaBorily informed in the followingktters^ to which he is therefore referred by 5n&rEDIT0R. DSI. LETTER I FROM Mr Benj. Franklin^ in Philadelphia. T o Mr Peter CoLLiNsoN, S. London. SIR, July 28, 1747. HE neceffary trouble of copying longletters, which perhaps when they cometo your hands may contain nothingnew, or worth your reading (To quickis the progrefs made with you in E-leftricity) half difcourages me fromwriting any more on that fubjed:. Yet I cannot forbearadding a few obfervations on M. Mufche?ibroek!s won-derful
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