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through the Body of the glafs Phial, which is thereby 
immediately impregnated with it 5 and this, though 
the Hand fhould be placed even under the glafs 
Salver itfielf. 
Here we fee ail Example, where an Ele&ric 
per fe is fo far from terminating or excluding 
the Power of Electricity, that it is even made a 
Medium of Communication in Circumflances where 
the Wire, which is a Non eleCtric per fe , refufes to 
perform its expe&ed Office. When I fpcak of the 
Power of Electricity in this Cafe, I would not be 
underflood of the Power of attracting light Bodies, 
which is well known to be fcarce fenfibly interrupted 
by a glafs Medium , as appears in the common Expe- 
riment of an electrified Tube, acting upon Leaf- 
Gold, in a cryftal Bottle : Though even this, if duly 
confidered, might create fome Difficulty 3 but I would 
only be understood of that communicated Virtue, 
which renders Non-electrics per fe ele&rical. In one 
Word, the Singularity of this Experiment is, that, 
by the Addition of the glafs Salver, the Wire and 
the Water, both of them Non-electrics per fe , fhould 
not be in the leaft affected without the Approach of a 
Hand, and fhould then receive the electrical Fire 
from it through a glafs Medium 5 notwithftanding 
they are in the very fame Circumftances, that a Man 
is in, or any other Non electric per fe , placed upon a 
Cake of Wax and in Contact with the electrifying 
Spheroid. Now,- that in this Experiment the glafs 
Salver has a confiderable Effect^ is very clear. For, 
