[14] This epitaph first appeared in a Boston news-paper established and printed by Dr. Franklin. E.
LETTERS AND PAPERS
ON
ELECTRICITY.
It may not be improper to present the reader with the following extract from the preface to the first edition of Dr. Franklin's papers on electricity, which, as we have stated in the advertisement, formed a pamphlet only.
"The following observations and experiments were not drawn up with a view to their being made public, but were communicated at different times, and most of them in letters, written on various topics, as matters only of private amusement.