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by any action on the bodies themselves, such as rubbing, warming, &c. But 

 an electric per se, when excited, can communicate its virtue to a non-electric, 

 and that virtue will be received by all the parts of the non electric, be the body 

 ever so long or large, and be strongest, being as it were collected at that end 

 of the non-electric, which is farthest from the place where the electricity is 

 first received, 



3. A non-electric, having received electricity, will communicate to another 

 body brought to touch it, or only brought pretty near, and that often with 

 a snapping noise, and a small flash of light, losing by that means all its own 

 electricity. 



4. An electric per se will become a non-electric for a time, if it be made wet 

 or moist, and become receptive of electricity, which it will receive at one end, 

 and carry to the other, where the electricity will go off with a small explosion, 

 to impregnate any other non-electric, which is brought near. 



5. An electric per se, in which electricity has been excited, may become 

 non-electric by being exposed to moist air, whose humid vapours it attracts ; 

 and then, brought to the fire, or into very dry air, recover its electricity when 

 the moisture is exhaled again. ^ 



6. An electric per se may be made strongly electric in part of its length, 

 while the other part remains in a non-electric state. 



7. A body in a state of electricity, whether a non-electric having received 

 electricity, or an electric per se, excited to electricity, will attract all non-elec- 

 trics, and repel other bodies that are in a state of electricity, provided the elec- 

 tricity be of the same kind. 



8. A non-electric body will not retain the electricity which it receives from an 

 electric per se, unless it be free from touching any other non-electric body ; 

 but must be suspended or supported by electrics per se touching only them and 

 the air. 



Q. An electric per se, when it is not reduced to a non-electric state, will not 

 receive electricity from another electric per se, whose electricity is excited, so 

 as to run along its whole length ; but will only receive it a little way, being as 

 it were saturated with it. 



jO. An electric per se will not lose all its electricity at once, but only the 

 electricity of such parts of the body as have comniunicated it to other bodies, or 

 near which non-electrics have been brought. 



11. When a non-electric, which has received electricity, communicates its 

 electricity to another, it loses all its electricity at once ; and the effluvia, in 

 coming out, strike the new body brought near, as well as the body first made 

 electric. 



