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BC.768.117
7-14 Nov 1768:4291-2 (1/48)
On the Means of Preservation from Thunder, from the History
of the Paris Academy of Sciences, just published. . . [2
columns, including the following advice:] It is also a bad
practice to ring bells when the storm is over a church;
those instruments are of metal, and the ringers who hold the
ropes in their hands, whereby the electric shock may be
easily communicated to them, are in very great danger. So
that it is best to leave the bells at rest, and not come too
near the steeple, which from the weight of metal it
contains, is more exposed than any other part of the
edifice.
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