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fnrall light Body being fufpended as in Experiments I, II. 
will make Revolutions round it, but (lower and nearer 
to it than when it is placed on a Cake of Rofin, or 
within a Glafs-hoop. 
Remarks. 
He had not yet found that thefe Experiments would 
fiicceed, if the Thread, by which the light Body was 
fufpended, was fupported by any other Thing than an 
Human Hand; but he imagin'd it might happen the 
fame, if the Thread fhould be fupported or fatten'd to 
any animal Subftance whatever j and he intended to 
have tried the Foot of a Chicken, a Piece of raw Flefh, 
or the like. 
He imagin'd to explain the foregoing Particular, by 
the following odd Phenomenon, of which, he allur'd 
me, he was very certain, having often obferv'd it, 
viz. If a Man retting his Elbows on his Knees, places 
his Hands at fome fmall Diftance from each other, 
they will gradually accede to each other, without any 
Will or Intention of the Man to bring them together;, 
and they will again recede of themfelves. In the like 
manner, the Hand will be attraded by the Body ; or 
the Face of a Man, if he (land near a Wall, will be 
attracted to the W all, and be again repelled by it. 
He told me, he had thought of thefe Experiments 
only a very fhort Time before his falling fick, that he 
had not yet tried them with variety of Bodies, but 
that from what he had already feen of them, which 
flruck him with new Surprize every Time he repeated 
them, he hoped, if God would (pare his Life but a 
little longer, he fhould, from what thefe Phenomena 
joint out, bring his Ele&rical Experiments to the 
greatest 
