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4

ELECTRICITY ON MOUNTAINS.

M. Henri de Saussure, a descendant of the cele-
brated natural philosopher, has published an inte-
resting paper in the Bibliotheque Universelle on a
phenomenon which has but recently attracted
attention. Having reached the summit of the Piz
Surley, a mountain composed of crystalline rocks
in the Grisons, and 3,200 metres in elevation, M.
de Saussure and his party laid their alpenstocks
against a little cairn of dry stones which crowns
the summit, and prepared to take their repast.
Almost at the same instant the narrator felt
at his back, in the left shoulder, a very acute pain,
like that produced by a pin slightly pressed into
the flesh, and when he put his hand to the spot
without finding anything, a similar pain Was
felt in the right shoulder. Supposing his overcoat
to contain pins, he took it off, but the pins in-
creased, extending from one shoulder to the other
across the whole back. 'They were accompanied by
pricking sensations and sharp shooting pains, such
as a wasp crawling over the skin and stinging all
the time might produce. The pain next assumed
the character of a burn, and M. de Saussure
actually fanciel that his flannel waistcoat had
caught fire, and was about to throw off the rest
of his clothes, when his attention was arrested
by a sound reminding him of the reverbera-
tions of a tuning-fork. These sounds came from
the sticks which, resting against the cairn,
sang loudly, emitting a sound like that of a kettle
the water in which is about to boil. All this lasted
about four or five minutes. M. de Saussure at once
guessed that his sensations proceeded from a flow
of electricity taking place from the summit of the
mountain. No spark, however, was obtained from
the sticks ; they vibrated strongly in the hand, and
sounded very loud. Some minutes afterwards he
felt his hair and beard stand out, causing him
to feel the sensation resulting from a razor passed
dry over the bristles. A young Frenchman who
was of the party cried out that he felt the hair
of his moustache growing, and that strong cur-
rents were flowing from the tips of his ears ;
and they soon flowed from all parts of the bodies of
those present. As they descended the mountain
the humming of the sticks and the other phenomena
diminished and eventually ceased. The sky was
cloudy, and the travellers had been overtaken'' at
the time by a shower of thin hail and sleet. On
the same day a violent storm broke out in the
Bernese Alps, where an Englishwoman was killed.
Sleet, frost, and an overcast sky appear to be the
conditions necessary for the production of the phe-
nomena above described. Many of the guides have
never observed them, and others recollect having
remarked them only once or twice.