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Show 510 Identity 9f the flurom (mz/ E/t'rfi'ric FAY/'11. fltgqr 970 l N'om to the preceding Paper. " [WI miltaltc not, this paper was read to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, at the meeting held immediately after Euler 1779' Dikoveries relative to the clcflricity of the atmol‘pherc, {cent the property of‘Dr. Franklin. Having explained the/rlyt'azm ol‘light. ning. and the menus of r/ijnmi/Ig it.»~ fury, haying furnilhed the ptincipztl fuels and conjectures l'or determining its made If t'a/Iemiim and dl/tl-rrilu, along with our {lam/r; it remained for him to inflrutl 1:5 in the hiltory of the Aurora Bart x--l‘le modellly call:. it only a preparation towards rtn hypothehs; but there are few electricians who will not {be difcoveretl in it fundamentals of its caufe ; and ltereal‘terwhen contemplating this meteor, pay their tribute to Dr. Franklin. I lind it nece" ry to obferve however, that Dr. Franklin appears to have little dil'ricultv in fu olino the electric fluid and the matter . , l of the aurortts, to lie-one 21:1}; thebfnme; and only inquires bow the , ' L fluid cames to be found in afi‘uatim fit for producing the appear- ancer there cxhibited.~-HC does not therefore enumerate any of thofe articles in which they mutA ally rorrtflwul; fitch as the diffuled milky light, the filent flitting, :tnd fometimes convulfed corrnfcntions of that light, the feveral varieties of colour, Eve. that are alike fecn indtheauroras, anion}: lel's perfeé‘t :trtilicinl vacutttms when electrilie ; together wit 0t er circumltances ofrcfem lance that are to be colleétcd from the hypothells itfelf. r I ¥ / , , I '//'~ '/‘/1'//'-/ M/IHH/w/Mryr/znw/(wwwM n //$. "/1 ABC. Mr "WI/{(2% ,2 21:,- [' JAM", ,,', /,{,,_//;},//,,t//,'(V,(,/,tl ' V f . j- ' , , . l ' ‘ . 14113;)"; M" M, «UNI/<7"; 0/ M (, ("mat/'4'" ‘/ The (onw'fia' corrul'rutions indeed in the auroras, mull refemhle the repetitions of the llroke obfsrvahle in lightning; which hmv- '//" "/'/'""'///("//"/l f1 "Mt/1' I'll/I l'/' mu f/mnfiw 41/ ()21/ . ///7f/fn/ ,///u //l/,/,,/,,} 7,, A, ,UM/t,{,/m,f,///flf aux/11' ever, being acknowledged eleilrical, comes to the fame things-And /,,'/.,,///A'_ /'/1// A itlbli rulhing in turn to the condufling pztlfage: And, in nixaiy in number as the canneé‘ted refervtlirs are, {0 frequent will be the repetition of the llmlce; thc firll tlilcliarges beingr neeeliltrily the molt \iolent +.~--Dut if thefe eurt‘ulentions fhottld not all (it the-'11 1 [Accounts are often given of {trukcs of lightning, which are .‘..idtohnc1!i- rvidad themielrts upon their 132"th in different u‘inébuns? May nut theft arr ances mt 1c frequently arift- from the explulion and difliptttion ot the firli ailttrttt'ed condufl'urs, by the Exit dil'tharges 3 which makes it neeell'arv for theft/lowmg difcharges to leek other «miles? 15.] l arii‘e ' [/31 :1 ,///Mg "fl at/HQ] the repetitions in both eat"; may be fuppul'ed owing- to the difcharge of one collet‘tion of the fluid along the conducting prtlllagez, lit-111g inllzmtly followed by the difeharge of another from a more diliant refervoir, l‘uccectling into the vacancy the firlt he.) left, and then V , " ‘ , ‘l lllllllllrllllllulllll |