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where the Tube was held ; then there w£re taken three 
fmall fquare Pieces of Wood, that were tied to three 
Lines of Packthread : Thefe were of about the Lengths 
above-mentioned. They were laid on the Silk Lines, 
and by Loops at the other Ends were fufpended on the 
Tube ^ then the Leaf-Brafs being held under the 
Pieces of Wood, and the Tube rubbed, they all of 
them attrafted the Leaf-Brafs at the fame Time. 
Some Time after, in my Abfence, Mr. Wheler tried 
a red hot Poker, and found that the Attraction was 
the fame as when cold. He alfo fufpended a live 
Chick upon the Tube, by the Legs, and found that 
the Breaft of the Chick was ftrongly Electrical. 
At Mr. Godfrey’.? 1 made the following Experi- 
ments ; pewing that the EleCtrick Vertue may 
he carried from the Lube, without touching the 
Line of Communication , by only being held near 
it. 
The firft of thefe Experiments was made the yth of 
Augujl , 1719. I fhali here mention fome of the 
moft confiderable ones ; but as I did not always fet 
down the Day of the Month, fome of them may 
not be related in the Order of Time they were 
made..; nor did I always mention the Length of the 
Lines, thefe not being thought to be abfolutely ne« 
ceffary. 
I took a Piece of a Hair-Line, fuch as Linnen- 
Cloaths are dried on, of about eleven Feet in Length ; 
which, by a Loop at the upper End of it, was 
fufpended on a Nail, that was drove into one of 
the Rafters in the Garret; and had at its lower End 
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