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downy feathery and immediately, as 

 I expected^they left their preceeding 

 pofture, and applied themfelves to it 

 as if it had been an Ele&rical Body* 

 And whether I offered to them my 

 nail, or the pulpy part of my finger, 

 or held my finger towards the right 

 hand or the left,or dire&lyover,thefe 

 downy feathers that were near the 

 little Quill did nimbly, and, for ought 

 appeared, equally turn themfelves to- 

 wards it, and faften themfelves to it. 

 And to (hew that the (teams that if- 

 fued out of fo warm a Body as my 

 finger were not neceflary to attraft 

 (as men fpeak) the abovementioned 

 feathers, inftead of my finger, I ap- 

 plied to them, after the fame manner, 

 a little Cylindrical Inftrument of Sil- 

 ver, to which they bowed and fa- 

 ttened themfelves as they had done 

 to my finger, though the tip of this 

 Inftrument were prefented to them 

 in feveral poftures. The like fuccefs 

 I had with the end of an Iron Key, 

 and the like alfo with a cold piece of 

 poIilVd black Marble^ and fometimes 



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