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in a Garden, tho’ the Wind was high, and that the 
Line made eight Return?, and pafs’d thro’ two dif- 
ferent Walks. By means of two Silk Loops I ad- 
jutted two Lines in fuch a manner, that their Ends 
were but a Footdiftance from one another, and I re- 
mark’d that the Ele&rick Virtue was ftill communi- 
cated. I have (ince that feen in the Philo f Tranf. 
N° 416, /.431, that Mr. Gray had the fame 
Though % and that he had done the fame with Rods. 
This Experiment put me upon placing feveral differ- 
ent Bodies between the two Lines, in order to exa- 
mine which diminifhed or intercepted the Eiedricity, 
and which gave no Obftruftion to it ; I have given 
the Academy an Account of the Particulars, which 
I now omit for the fake of Brevity. 
Fifthly , I fufpended a Child on Silk Lines, and 
made all the furprifing Experiments de- 
N®^7^39^ %ibed by Mr. Gray. But having tried 
the Experiment upon my own Body in 
the fame manner, I obferved feveral things very re- 
markable. Firft, when I take the Pafte-board or 
Stand, on which the Leaf-Gold is laid, into my Hand, 
neither my other Hand nor my Face has any At- 
traction. But if another Perfon, who is in the Cham- 
ber, come near me, he will attra£lit with his Face, 
his Hand, or even with a Stick, Secondly, while I 
am fufpended on the Lines, if the ele&rick Tube be 
put near one of my Hands, or my Legs, and then if 
another Perfon approach me, and pafs his Hand 
within anlnch or thereabouts of my Face, Legs, Hand 
or Cloaths, there immediately iffues from my Body one 
or more pricking Shoots, with a crackling Noife,that 
caufes to that Perfon as well as to my fclf, a little 
