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Leaf-Brafs being laid down, and the Tube rubbed, 
the Ball attraded and repelled the Leaf-Brafs with 
Vigour ; fo that it was not at all to be doubted, but 
with a longer Pole the Electricity would have been car- 
ried much farther. 
May the 16th, I made a Rod thirty-two Feet long, 
including the Tube ; the bigger Part of it was a Fir- 
Staff about fix Feet and a half long, the reft was of 
Cane, and Reed for the top Part of it. All Things 
being prepared, as before, the Effed was the fame as 
in the laft Experiment, only the Pole bending fo much, 
and vibrating by rubbing the Tube, made it more trou- 
blefome to manage the Experiment. This put me upon 
making the following Ex periments, 
May the 19th, about fix in the Morning, the Ivory 
Ball being fufpended on the Tube, by a Line of Pack- 
thread twenty-fix Feet long, which was the Hight, I 
flood at in the Balcony, from the Court where he 
flood, that held the Board with the Leaf-Brafs on it ; 
then the Tube being rubbed, attraded the Leaf-Brafs 
to the Hight of near two Inches, as he that affifted 
informed me. This was repeated with the Cork Ball 
with the fame Succefs. 
May the 3 1 ft, in the Morning, to a Pole of eighteen 
Feet there was tied a Line of thirty-four Feet inLength; 
fo that the Pole and Line together were fifty-two 
Feet. With the Pole and Tube I flood in the Balco- 
ny, the Afliftant below in the Court, where he held 
the Board with the Leaf-Brafs on it j then the Tube 
being excited as ufual, the Eledrick Vertue pafledfrom 
the Tube up the Pole, and down the Line to the Ivory 
Ball, which attraded the Leaf-Brafs, and as the Ball 
paffed 
