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a leaden Weight of fourteen Pounds hung to it by an 
Iron Ring : then the Leaf-Brafs was laid under the 
Weight, and the Tube rubbed, and being held near 
the Line without touching it, the Lead- Weight at- 
tracted and repelled the Leaf-Brafs for feveral times 
together, to the Hight of at leaft three, if not four 
Inches. If the Tube was held three or four Feet 
above the Weight, there would be an Attraction ; but 
if it were held higher up, fo as to be near the Rafter 
where the Weight was hung by the Hair-Line, there 
would be no Attraction. 
An Experiment , (hewing that the EleClrick Vertue 
may he carried feveral Ways at the fame 'Time , 
by a Line of Communication , without touching 
the faid Line. 
There were taken two Hair-Lines, of between four 
and five Feet long ; to each of thefe was tied a fquare 
Piece of Cork, by Packthread ^ the Lines were fuf- 
pended by Loops at their upper Ends, upon two Nails ; 
near the lower Ends there was tied to the Hair-Lines 
a Piece ef Packthread, by which there was a Com?- 
munication between the two Hair-Lines j then the 
Leaf-Brafs laid under the Corks, the T ube being rub- 
bed, and held near one of the Lines, both the Corks 
attracted ; but that which was fartheft, much ftronger 
than that, near which the Tube was held. About the 
Middle of the Line of Communication they both drew 
with equal Force. 
Some 
