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of them had been attracted by the Bell, being remo- 
ved from the Places they were left in when covered 
by it. 
Some time after Mr tfVbeler told me of an Expe- 
riment he had made in vacuo , when I was gone from 
him. He took a fmall Receiver, and in it fuf- 
pended a Thread, and over this four other Receivers, 
all exhaufied, and the Thread was attracted through 
all the five Receivers, and he thought the Attraction 
was rather Hronger than before, when a iingle Re- 
ceiver only was made ufe of ; but infiead of wet 
Leather, he made ufe of a Cement I had recommend- 
ed to him, viz . Bees-Wax and Turpentine, which 
was what Mr. Boyle made ufe of in his Experiments 
with the Air-Pump, and that, as I had told him, it 
was my Opinion the Attraftions would be much Wron- 
ger, the Steams of the wet Leather taking off fome of 
the attracting Force. 
I (hall now proceed to give fome Account of the 
Experiments made at Mr. Godfrey's ; the firfl of 
which was giving an Attraction by the Tube to a Boy 
fufpended on Hair-Lines, and that by the Interventi- 
on of a Line of Communication, the attractive Ver- 
rue paffes to another Boy that Hands at feveral Feet 
diftant from him. But before I go any farther, it 
may not be improper to give an Account of that Ex- 
periment of the attractive Power that is communica- 
ted to the Boy Handing on Rofin ; which though the 
Society have feen the Experiment, 1 have not given 
you any Account of it in Writing. 
June- the 16th, 1731, in theMorning, I made 
the following Experiment on the Boy mentioned, 
caufing him to become Attractive by fufpending 
G gg z him 
