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if the Phial is placed upon the Table, or upon a 
Stand, without the Salver, a few Revolutions of the 
Spheroid will with Eafe communicate a ftrong Elec- 
tricity to it 5 particularly if any one touches the Table 
or Stand it is placed upon: and to know whether any 
Degree of Electricity has been communicated or not, 
the Phial is to be brought to the Teft of any of the pre- 
ceding Experiments^ 
Exp. IX. 
If the electrified Phial is placed upon a Table, 
and any light Body is fuipended by a fiiver Thread,, 
within the Diftance of about two Inches from the 
Phial, what I faw was a fmall brafs Bell of a Lap- 
dog’s Collar, the Phial will attract that light Body to 
it with Force, if any of the Company touch the 
Wire of the Phial 5 but if the Phial itfelf is touched, 
it will repel it with a Force equal to its Attraction 
in the former Cafe. 
Exp. X. 
This Experiment confifts in the Communication of 
the electrical Fire from the glafs Spheroid to many Per- 
fons at once, as in England from a Tube 5 with this only 
Difference, that the Company do not here join Hands, 
but are united to each other by taking hold of iron 
Chains, which furprifingly increafe the Force of the 
communicated 
