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ing and repelling light Bodies, as the Tube does, when 
excited by rubbing ; that this attradive Vertue might 
be carried to Bodies that were many Feet diftant 
from the Tube. On May the ill Dr Defaguliers 
made a Report of the Experiments he had feen, to the 
Royal Society j I thenpromifed to communicate a more 
particular Account of thefe Experiments to the Society \ 
but as I was the next Day to go into the Country, 
where I knew that I fhould have the Opportunity of 
carrying on the Experiments much farther than I had 
yet done, for want of Room in my Chamber, which 
was not large enough for carrying on feveral other 
Experiments I had in View ; 1 was willing, as I had 
begun the Difcovery, to carry it on as much farther as 
I could, before I communicated it to the Royal Society , 
which I now humbly offer to their Conlideration. 
In February 171%, I repeated fome of the Experi- 
ments I had formerly made, in the firfl Difcovery of an 
Eledrical Attraffion in many Bodies, not before known 
to have that Property, which I communicated to the 
Royal Society. An Account of thofe Experiments is 
given in the Philofophical T ranfaclions, N° 3 66. I 
made feveral Attempts on the Metals, to fee whether 
they might not be made attradive by the fame Method 
as other Bodies were, viz. by heating, rubbing and 
hammering, but without any Succefs : I then refolved 
to procure me a large Flint-Glafs Tube, to fee if I could 
make any farther Difcovery with it, having called to 
Mind a Sufpicion which fome Years ago I had, that as 
the Tube communicated a Light to Bodies, when it 
was rubbed in the Dark, whether it might not at the 
fame Time communicate an Eledricity to them, though 
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