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to the larger End, there not only appeared a Light, 
but the Finger was pulhed, more elpecially when the 
Holly Rod was made ufe of, and the Cheak was a 
little prick’d, but the Smart was not near fo great, 
as when the Iron Rods were ufed ; the great End of 
the Rod was pointed with a much larger Angie 
then the lefler one, yet there was very little, if a- 
ny difference, in the form, or bignefs of the Light 
that proceeded from either End. 
Having procured me two pair of Lines made of 
Worded Yarn, one of them of a Mazareen Blew, 
the other of a Scarlet Colour ; on the 3d of Aprils 
I fufpended the Boy firft on the Blew Lines, and 
found that all the Effects were the fame, as when he 
was fufpended on Lines of Blew Silk. I then luft 
pended him upon the Scarlet Lines, but now 
though the Tube were as well excited, and the Ex- 
periment often repeated, yet there was no Effeft 
produced on him, either of attraction of a pendulous 
Thread, nor of pricking or burning, by applying 
one’s Hand near him ; I then laid one of the Iron 
Rods firft upon the Blew Lines, and all the fame 
Effects were exhibited, as when the fame Rod had 
been laid on Silk Lines of that Colour; but upon 
laying the fame Rod upon the Scarlet Lines, no 
manner of attraction, &c. was perceived. 
In the Philofophical TranfaCtions, Numb. 422^ 
1 gave an Account of the Experiments I made upon 
the communicative Electricity of Water, and that 
Water is attracted by the Tube, together withfeve- 
ral remarkable Circumftances with which this at- 
traction is attended ; but I have now found, that 
when the Stand with thofe little Ivory Cups there 
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