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tricity appears alfo when the body is in a flate of perfpira- 
tion. There are perfons who, in this manner, never emit 
eleGtricity. The electricity which fhews itfelf in the human 
body is pofitive, and fometimes negative. The caufe of this 
variation he was not:able to difcover. 
[ To be concluded in next Number. ] 
II. On the Method of Difiilling as pra€tifed by the Natives 
at Chatra in Ramgur, and other Parts of India, By 
ARCHIBALD Keir, E/g.* 
Ap body of the ftill they ufe is a common, large, un- 
glazed, earthen water-jar, nearly globular, of about twenty- 
five inches diameter at the wideft part of it, and twenty-two 
inches deep to the neck, which neck rifes two inches more, 
and is eleven inches wide in the opening. Such, at leaft, 
was the fize of the one I meafured ; which they filled about 
a half with fomented Mahwah flowers, that fwam in the 
liquor to be diftilled. 
The jar they placed in a furnace, not the moft artificial, 
thongh feemingly not ill adapted to give a great heat with 
but very little fuel. This they made by digging a round 
hole in the ground, about twenty inches wide, and full three 
feet deep; cutting an opening in the front, flopmg down to 
the bottom, on the fides perpendicular, of about nine inches 
wide and fifteen long, reckoning from the circle where 
the jar was to come, to ferve to throw in the wood at, and™ 
for a paflaze to the air. On the fide too they cut another 
{mall opening of about four inches by three; the jar, when 
placed, forming one fide cf it, to ferve as a chimney for the 
{moke to go out at. The bottom of the earth was rounded 
up like a cup. Having then placed the jar in this, as far as 
it would go down, they covered it above, all round, with 
clay, except at the two openings, till within about a fifth of 
its height; when their furnace was completed. mah hg 
In this way I reckon there was a full third of the furfice 
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