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mentioned, be fet upon any EleCtrick Body, the 
lame Phenomena are produced, not only by hold- 
ing the Tube near the Water, but when that is re- 
moved, and the Tip of the Finger placed over 
the Water, viz. there is a little Hill, or Protube- 
rance of Water of a Conical Form, from the Ver- 
tex of which proceeded a Light and a fmall Snapping. 
May the 6th, we made the following Experiment. 
The Boy being fufpended on the Silk Lines, and the 
Tube being applied near his Feet asufualj upon his 
holding the End of his Finger near a Gentleman’s 
Hand, that flood on a Cake made of Shell Lack and 
black Rofin ; at the fame time another Gentleman 
flood at the other fide oftheBoy with the pendulous 
Thread ; then the Boy was bid to hold his Finger 
near the firft Gentleman's Hand, upon which it was 
prick’d, and the fnapping Noife was heard ; and at 
the fame time, the Thread which was by its at- 
traction going towards the Boy fell back, the Boy- 
having loft a great part of his attraction, upon a fe- 
cond moving his Finger to the Gentleman’s Hand, 
the attraction ceafed : then the Thread being held 
near that Gentleman, he was found to attrad very 
ftrongly ; but having fince repeated this Experi- 
ment, I find that though the attraction of the Boy is 
much diminifhed, yet he does not quite loie it, till 
3, and fometimes 4 applications of his Finger to 
the hand of him that ftands on the Eledrick Body, 
but without touching him. At another timelcaufed 
three Perfons to ftand, one of them upon a Cake of 
Shell Lack, <&c. the other upon one of Sulphur, 
the third upon a Cake of Bees- Wax and Rofin ; 
the Perfons all holding Hands, the Boy applying his 
Finger 
