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applied to his Feet or Hands, and the Finger of any 
one that flood by held near his Hands or Face, he 
found himfelf pricked or burnt, as it were by a Spark 
Gf Fire, as Mr. Dufay had related, and the (happing 
Noife was heard at the fame Time ^ but it did not 
fucceed with us, when we applied our Hands to any 
part of his Body through his C-loaths, except upon 
his Legs, upon which he felt the Pain through his 
Stockings, although they were very thick ones* 
2. Being deurous to make the Experiment upon, 
another Species of Animals, we took a large white 
Cock, and fufpended him upon the Lines firft alive, 
and the Effect was the fame as on the Boy, whether 
we applied our Fingers to any Part of his Body, or 
our Cheek to his Beak, Comb or Claws j then the 
Cock was killed, and put on the Lines again, and we 
found very little, if any, Differenceffrom the Effed 
it had on us when the Cock was living : We then 
caufed the Cock to be ftripped of his Feathers, and 
the Difference from what has been faid before was 
not very great. 
3. We took a large Sirloin of Beef, that came from' 
an Ox that had been killed two Days before, and 
fufpended it on' the (Ilk Lines j then the Fingers held 
near any Part of it, there was a Snapping, and the 
Fingers were pufhed or pricked 4 -but the Snapping 
was thought not to be quite fo loud as when the Ex- 
periment was made on the Cock, 
4. We caufed to be made an Iron Rod, 4 Foot long, 
and about half an Inch Diameter, pointed at each 
End, but not (harp, being left about the Bignefs of a 
Tiffs Head, this being fufpended on the Lines ; then 
the Tube being rubb’d, and held near one End of the 
C 2 Rod, 
