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Gun Barrel, but not fo ftrong* for it feems not at 
all to extend beyond the Elbows. 
This is the Experiment, which Abbe Nollet 
performed upon 180 of the Guards, before the King, 
who were all fo fenfibie of it at the fame Inftant 
of Time, that the Surprize caufed them all to fpring 
up at once 5 as it will indeed force any Perfon to 
do that fubjefts himfelf to the Trial* tho’ the con- 
vuliionary Motion itfelf, as I obferved before, 
reaches not beyond the Elbows : But the greater 
or Idler Effect depends entirely upon the longer or 
fliorter Application of the Phial to the electrify- 
ing Spheroid * and I am credibly informed, that 
when due Precautions have not been taken in this 
Particular, fome Pcrfons have received fuch vio- 
lent Shocks, as have benumbed, and impaired, to 
a certain Degree, the Ufe of their Arms for a Day 
or two, before they perfectly recovered themfelves. 
I can affure you, however, from my own Experience, 
that, with the Precautions I have already taken notice, 
of, there is no manner of Danger, tho' at the fame 
time a fufficicnt Efficacy may be communicated to 
the Phial, to gratify any one's Curiofity : And in this 
Particular I have been the more prolix, left any bad 
Confequence fhould happen to the: unexperienced. 
Exp. VI. 
Another Experiment with the electrified Phial con- 
lifts, firft, in placing a Wire fixed in a Pedeftal, erect in 
a Bafon of Water, the Head of which Wire is bent, 
and rifes fome three or four Inches above the Level 
of 
