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In this Experiment, it is very remarkable, how 
greatly the Force of the communicated Eledricity is 
augmented, by the Application of the eledrified Phial : 
But the mod furprifing Circumftance attending the 
Ufe thereof, and which, I believe, is, among all 
the Bodies that are fufceptible of Eiedricity, pecu- 
liar to this alone, is, that it lofes not entirely its 
Efficacy under feveral Minutes 5 and I am told, that 
in a Froft it will retain it for fix-and-thirty Hours to- 
gether. 
Monfieur de Buffon, who informed me that 
Monfieur le Monnier was the firfi: who difeovered 
this Particular, has alfo allured me, that this fame 
Gentleman had frequently eledrified the Phial at 
home, and brought it in his Hand through many 
Streets from the College of Har court, to his 
Apartments in the King's Garden, without any very 
fenfible Diminution of its Efficacy. The Ufe of the 
eledrified Phial may be diverfified many Ways: 
among others are fuch as follow. 
Exp. V. 
When the Phial has been fufficiently eledrified as 
above, the whole Company join Hands $ the Opera- 
tor at one Extremity of the Line grafps the Bottom 
of the eledrified Phial, and the Perfon at the other 
Extremity touches the Wire, which rifes above the 
Cork. At thatlnftant, the whole Company receives 
a Shock, refembling that in the Experiment of the 
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