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 The operation and progress of the lightning in the obelisk and upper parts of the steple deserve more particular attention. To form a more perfect idea of these, the following measures will in some degree contribute,comma in the original text [sic]

The vane, the cross above it, the ball and its socket, which covered so much of the spindle as arose above the stone, to near ten feet of its length, were of copper gilt. This length of the spindle was cylindrical, but the other part was made square, where it began to be inserted into the stone. To fasten this spindle more securely in the courses of stone, melted lead had been poured. This lead, in the two lower courses of stone through which the spindle had passed, not only filled all the space left between the spindle and the