116 Hare’s New Galvame Apparatus, Theory, &c. 
controvertible su pport to the objections he made to the idea, 
that the galvanic fluid is pure electricity, when extricated 
by the voltaic pile in its usual form. It showed that a pile 
really producing pure electricity, is devoid of the chemical 
power of galvanism. 
We are informed by Sir H. Lites, that when chases’ 
points in connection with the poles of the magnificent appa- 
ratus with which he operated, were first brought nearly into 
contact, and then withdrawn four inches apart, there was a 
heated arch formed asia them in which such non-con- 
di ‘substances as quartz were fused. I believe it im- 
possible to fuse anes by mechanical electricity. If op- 
posing its passage they may be broken, and if conductors 
near them be ignited, they may be acted on by those ignited 
conductors as if otherwise heated; but I will venture to 
predict, that the slightest glass fibre will not enter into fu- 
sion, by being placed in A A COCO sfepen st largest machine 
or electrical battery. 
believe, that we si consi ider light, as 
well as nase an ingredient i in the galvanic fluid; and think 
it possible, that, being necessary to vitality in ‘animals, as 
well as vegetables, the electric fluid may be the vehicle of 
its distribution. 
IT will take this oppor tunity of stating, that the heat pier 
ved by one galvanic pair has bee n found by the experi- 
ments which I instituted, to increase in quantity, but to di- 
vainish i in intensity, as the size of the surfaces may. be 2 en 
arged. A 
al, will not fuse platina, nor deflagrate iron, however spall 
may be the wire employed; fort the heat produced in metallic 
est wires. ee my mena Mr. Peale scpateted- thd two 
