provided they be minute or light e- 

 nough, except perhaps it be fire; 

 I employ the word perhaps , becaufe 

 I am not yet fo clear, in this point* 

 For having applied a ftrong Elcftric 

 at a convenient diftance to fmall 

 fragments of ignited matter , they 

 were readily enough attra&ed , and 

 fhin'd, whilft they were fticking to 

 the body that had drawn them : But 

 when I looked attentively upon 

 them, I found the (hining fparks to 

 be, as it were, qloath'd with ligl/fc 

 alhcs, which, in fpite of my dili- 

 gence 5 had been already form'd a- 

 bout the attracted Corpufcks , upon 

 the expiring of a good part qf the 

 fire; fo that it remained fomewhat 

 doubtful to me, whether the ignited 

 Corpufcles, whilft they were to- 

 tally fuch, were attraftedi or whe- 

 ther the immediate objeds qf the 

 Attradion were not the new form'd 

 a(hes> which carried up with them 

 thofe yet unextinguished parts of 

 lire, that chanc'd to be lodg'd in them. 

 But, as for flame., our Couatreyman 



