s8 flDf t$e ^ec&antcal^tgme 



ry ingenioufly remov'd myfufpicions, 

 ahd (as I requefted) gave me leave to 

 fatisfie my felf further,by defiring her 

 to hold her warm hand at a conveni- 

 ent diftance from one of thofe Locks 

 taken off and held in the air. For as 

 foon as (he did this , the lower end 

 of the Lock, which \vas free., appli- 

 ed it felf prefently to her hand ; 

 which feem'd the more ftrange, be- 

 caufe fo great a multitude of Hair 

 would not have been eafily attraft- 

 ed by an ordinary Ele&rical Body, 

 that had not been confiderably 

 large ? or extraordinarily vigorous* 

 This repeated Obfervation put me 

 upon inquiring among fome other 

 young Ladies, whether they had ob- 

 served any fuch like thing 3 but I found 

 little fatisfa&ion ro my Queftion, ex- 

 cept from one of them eminent for 

 being ingenious, who told me , that 

 fometimes fhe had met with thefe 

 troublelome Locks 5 bur chat all fhe 

 could tell me of r» : Circumftances, 

 which I would have been informed 

 abour^ was, that they feem'd to her 



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