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ling Noife like that produced by aGlafs Tube, though 
not at To great a diflancefrom the Fingers; to perform 
this, the Paper before rubbing muft be heated as hot 
as the Fingers can well bear. 
A Down Feather being tied to the end of a fine 
thread of Raw Silk, and the other end to a fmall Stick, 
which was fixed to a Foot, that it might (land upright 
on the Table; there was taken a piece of brown 
Paper, which by the above-mentioned method was 
made to be ftrongly Electrical, which being held near 
the Feather, it came to the Paper, and I carried it with 
the fame till it came near the Perpendicular of the Stick ; 
then lifting up my Hand till the Paper was got beyond 
the Feather , the Thread was extended and flood 
upright in the Air, as if it had been a piece of Wire, 
though the Feather was diftant from the Paper near an 
Inch. If the Finger were held near the Feather in this 
Pofition, the greatefl part of the Fibres next the Paper 
would be repelled, when at the fame time if a Finger 
were held to the Fibres that were more remote from 
the Paper, they would be drawn by it. 
1 then repeated this Experiment without the Feather, 
viz* by a fingle thread of Silk only of about y or 6 
Inches long, which was made to (land extended up- 
right as above-mentioned, without touching the Paper; 
then placing my Finger near the end, it wou’d avoid, 
or was repelled by it, but when I had placed my Finger 
at about the fame diflance from a part of the Thread, 
that was about two Inches from the end, it was then 
attracted by it. 
An Enumeration of the feveral Bodies mentioned 
herein, that are found to be Electrical. 
i. Feathers, z- Hair, 3. Silk, 4-Linnen, y. Woollen, 
6 . Paper, 7. Leather, 8. Wood, 9. Parchment, io, Ox- 
Guts, wherein Leaf Gold is beaten. 
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