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zarreries , or unaccountable ‘Phenomena, in the 
Courfe of electrical Experiments, that a Man can 
lcarce aflert any thing, in confequence of any Ex- 
periment, which is not contradi&ed by fome unex- 
pected Occurence in another : At leaft, this is my 
prefent Thought of the Mattery and I am the more 
confident in advancing it, ftnee that I have learnt your 
Friend Monfieur de Buffon is of the fame Opinion, 
for whofe Judgment I have the greateft Deference. 
I remember he told me one Day, when I had the Ho- 
nour of waiting upon him, that he thought the whole 
Subject of Electricity, though illuftrated with fo great 
a Variety of Experiments, very far from being yet 
fufficiently ripe for the Eftablifhment of a Courfe of 
Laws, or indeed of any certain one, fixed and deter- 
mined in all its Circumftances. An Inftance of this, 
among others that are or may be found out, will 
appear in the following Experiment. 
Exp. VIII. 
If the non eleftrified Phial is placed upon a glafs 
Salver, it acquires from the Revolution of the 
Spheroid no Electricity, though its Wire is in Con- 
tact with it all the Time; unlefs the Finger of fome 
one in the Company is approached very near to the 
Phial itfelf : But, in that Cafe, it receives it vifibly 
from the Finger , infomuch that, if the Chamber is 
darkened, you will fee the electrical Fire Breaming 
out of the Finger, and entering into the Water, 
through 
