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Experiment II. — Contact through water having proved to 

 be as effectual as actual mechanical contact, I wished to see 

 if the power or force could affect the weight, either through 

 other portions of the apparatus or through the air. The 

 glass vessel and iron stand, &c, were therefore removed, 



Fig. 5. 



Scale of Seconds. 



The horizontal scale of seconds shows the time occupied in the movements, 

 the experiment lasting one minute. The vertical scale shows the tension in 

 grains exerted on the balance at any moment. 



as an unnecessary complication, and Mr. Home's hands 

 were placed on the stand of the apparatus at P (Fig. 2). 

 A gentleman present put his hand on Mr. Home's hands, and 

 his foot on both Mr. Home's feet, and I also watched him 

 closely all the time. At the proper moment the clock was 



Fig. 6. 



^ 



In this and the two following figures the scales.both vertical and horizontal, 

 are the same as in Fig. 5. 



again set going; the board descended and rose in an irregular 

 manner, the result being a curved tracing on the glass, of 

 which Fig. 6 is a copy. 



Experiment III.— Mr. Home was now placed one toot 

 from the board A b, on one side of it. His hands and feet 



Fig. 7. 



were firmly grasped by a bystander, and another tracing, of 

 which Fig. 7 is a copy, was taken on the moving glass plate. 



