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.4 singular Electrical Phenomenon. An English traveller through the Alps of Savoy, whose work is recently published, thus de- scribes certain remarkable sounds caused by electricity:

 "The atmosphere was very tnrbid, the ground was covered with hali-melted snow, and some hail began to fall We were, per haps, 1900 feet below the Col, still about 5000 above the sea, when noticed curious sound, which seemed to proceed from the Alpine pole with which l was walking l asked the guide next me whether he heard it, and what he thous Tt it was The members of that fraternity are very hard pushed, n- deed, when they have not an answer ready tor any emergency. He therefore replied, with great eoolness, that the rusilng of the stick no doubt proceeded from worm ealing the wood in the interior! This answer did not appear to me to be satisfactory, and therefore applied the apprehension crueiS, of reversing the stick, so that the point was now uppermosl The worm was already at the other end. next held my hand above my head, and my fingers yielded a iizzing sound There could be but ono explanation: we were so near thnder-cloud as to be highly electrified by-induction. l soon per- ceived that all the angular stones were hissing around us, like points near powerful elec tric machine. told my comfanions of our situation, and begged Damatter to lower his umbrella, which he had now resumed, and hoisted against the hail shower, and whose gray brass point was likely to become the paratonnere of the party. The words were scarcely out of my mouth, when clap Of thunder, accompanied by lighting, justified my precaution.n