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Experiment I. 
The Perfon ele&rified by this Machine not only 
emits Fire from all Parts of his Body, upon the 
Touch of another, with more Vigour, and in a much 
more fenfible Manner, than when eledrified by a 
common Tube; but fires alfo Spirits of Wine with 
fuch Eafe, that when the Spirits have been once but 
fimpjy fet on Fire by a Match or Paper lighted, and 
the Flame has been inftantly blown our, they will, 
with that fmall Degree of Heat they have acquired, 
take Fire upon his Touch ten or twenty times fuc- 
ceflively, without failing once. 
I am told here, that they have frequently attempted in 
vain to fire Spirits with a common Tube ofGiafs;fo that 
I believe the Ufe of the T ube has been more improved 
in England than in any other Place : But it is a down- 
right Slavery, and in its Effcds many Degrees infe- 
rior to this Machine. I fhould have thought, as this 
fo much exceeds in Strength the common Tube, that 
many glafs Spheroids, ading at once upon the fame 
Body, would have confiderably increafed the Effed ; 
but Monfieur de Buffon tells me, that Monfleur 
le Monnier had found, upon Trial, that they an- 
fwered not his Expectations 5 fo that it might feem 
there is a Ne fins ultra in the Intenfity of Eledricirv, 
as well as in the Hear, which is communicated to 
boiling Water. 
Exp. II. 
If the Perfon electrified holds a Sword in one Hand, 
the Chamber being darkened, a continual Flame iffues 
out at the Point, in Smell and Colour rclcmbling the 
Fumes 
