of ^lectttcttj?. 25 



burnt quite black , and though it 

 were grown Itrangely brittle in com- 

 panion of Amber, fo that they who 

 believe the vertue of attracting light 

 Bodies to flow from the fubftantial 

 form of Amber , would not expeft 

 it in a Body fo changed and deprived 

 of its nobleft parts : Yet this Caput 

 mortnum was fo far from having loft 

 its Electrical Faculty, that it feemed 

 to attract more vigoroully than Am- 

 ber it felf is wont to do before it be 

 committed to Diftillation. 



And from the foregoing Tnfhnces 

 afforded us by the Glafs of Antimo- 

 ny, we may learn , that when the 

 form of a Body feems to be deftroy- 

 ed by a fiery Analyfts that diffipates 

 the parts of it , the remaining fub- 

 ftance may yet be endowed with E- 

 ledricity, a's the Caput mortnum of 

 Amber may acquire it 5 as in the cafe 

 of the Glafs of Antimony made of 

 the Calx and of the Flowers. And 

 from the fecond Example above- 

 mentioned, and from common Glafs 

 which is Ek&rical , we may alfo 



learn, 



