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on the points of fpeafs in certain fituations is now well known 

 to be no uncommon eledrical phasnomenon.* 



Here our author concludes his general reafoning againft the 

 credit of miracles upon any teftimony ; and as the remainder of 

 his eflay is nothing more than an attempt to prove, that many 

 acknowledged impoftures are as credible as thofe miracles whofe 

 credit is moft firmly eftablifted, a fubjedl foreign to academic 

 difcuflion, I fhall here clofe my obfervations on the paradoxes 

 he has advanced. 



* Pilorum cacumina fua fponte arferunt. Csefar de bello Africano cap. 6°. Plin. 

 Hifl. Nat. lib. 2. cap. 37. Prieftley's Hift. of Eledricity, p. 395. 



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