. The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer, Volume 22 . THE weftern (kies with Phoebus* carare bright, [of night: And lengthning (Shadows (how th* approachFird with the love of Thetis, iwift h< fpeeds,And urges on with hafte his foaming evry fpray, from evry new-blown bu(h,The lark, the linnet, nightingale and thrum,With voice* fweet, the fongders of the air,To fing their great Creators praife new mown hay delightful fragrance yields, [fields. And nature decks with fmiling green theThe orchards gay, Pomonas rural care, ^With bloflbms fweet perfume th
. The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer, Volume 22 . THE weftern (kies with Phoebus* carare bright, [of night: And lengthning (Shadows (how th* approachFird with the love of Thetis, iwift h< fpeeds,And urges on with hafte his foaming evry fpray, from evry new-blown bu(h,The lark, the linnet, nightingale and thrum,With voice* fweet, the fongders of the air,To fing their great Creators praife new mown hay delightful fragrance yields, [fields. And nature decks with fmiling green theThe orchards gay, Pomonas rural care, ^With bloflbms fweet perfume the neigh-1 bouring air j r The earneft of a coming plenteous year. 3Expectant of the ruddy milk-maids hand,The willing cows with dretchd out udders [p^ With juice neaareous fill the flowingStraind from the herbs of yenrier fiowry dale. [fpi^ Thewhilftling fwain from work returningWith pleafing hope, his future harveft rife;Defcending dews the gtowing blade re-fresh,And all things wear a face of chearfulnefs. Ilia TUB Digitized by VjOOQIC THE Monthly of a Letttrfrcm tie ingenious Dr. Joustiniwg, of Charles-Town, South-Ca-rolina, dated May J 5. HAVE feveral times thisfeafon, when there watan appearance cf a thun-der ftorm, fucceeded inmaking Mr. Franklinsexperiment with a kitefor drawing the lightningfrom clouds •, and laft Monday I repeat-ed the fame with remarkable fuccefs beforemany fpefrators. The flow of the elec-trical fluid, or of the matter of lightning,was fo rapid and copious down the linenear feven hundred feet long, to the keyappended at the lower end of the line,that from thence I obtained fparks oflightning as thick and long as the firft twojoints of a mans little finger, and thefeas quick one after another as I could bringthe loop of a wire, which I ufed for thatpurpofe, within about two inches of thekey t And the mappings from the keywere fo fmart and loud; that they wereheard at the diftance of at leaft two hun-dred yards. A ten ounce phial
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