[65] Dr. Lining.--EDITOR.
[66] See page 286, for the paper here mentioned.
[67] Mr. F. has since thought, that, possibly, the mutual repulsion
of the inner opposite sides of the electrised can may prevent the
accumulating an electric atmosphere upon them, and occasion it to
stand chiefly on the outside. But recommends it to the farther
examination of the curious.
TO MONS. DALIBARD, AT PARIS, INCLOSED IN A LETTER TO MR. PETER
COLLINSON, F. R. S.
_Beccaria's Work on Electricity.--Sentiments of Franklin on pointed
Rods, not fully understood in Europe.--Effect of Lightning on the
Church of Newbury, in New England.--Remarks on the Subject._
Read at the Royal Society, Dec. 18, 1755.
_Philadelphia, June 29, 1755._