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End of the Top of a fmall Fiihing-Rod, and upon 
the lefTer End a Ball of Cork ; then the Funnel 
was feton the Floor of the Room fo as that the Rod 
was at fome Inches diflance from the Line of Com- 
munication ; then the Tube being excited, and ap- 
plied near the End of the Line, the Electrick Vertue 
was conveyed by it to the Cork Ball, and it attracted 
ftrongly when the Ball was, by Eftimation, not lefs 
than two Feet Diftance from the aforefaid Line. 
December u, there being a hard Froft, and a fair 
Day, I repeated the Experiment, making ufe of a 
large Hoop that was about forty Inches Diameter, 
and fetting it perpendicular upon a hollow Cylinder 
of Glafs, which was fix Inches long, and five Inches 
and a half Diameter, fo placing the Hoop that the 
Line of Communication might pafs through, or at 
lead very near to the Center of the Hoop ; then ap- 
plying the Tube to the End of the Line, there was 
an Attraction communicated to all Parts of the 
Hoop, attracting a pendulous white Thread at the 
Diftance, by Eftimation, of about half an Inch. I 
then fet the Hoop fo as the inward Surface of the 
Hoop might touch the Line, and then communicating 
an Attraftion by the excited Tube to the Packthread, 
the attractive Vertue was carried by it to the Hoop, 
and caufedit to attraCt with that Force, as with the 
remoteft Part of the Hoop to attraCt the Thread 
at a Diftance, by Eftimation, of about four 
Inches. 
Some time after the ’foregoing, J made the fol- 
lowing Experiment. The Erge Hoop being fet up- 
on the Glafs Cylinder, and the Packthread, paffing 
through, or near its Center, the Tube being applied 
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