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communicated Electricity : For it is to be obferved, 
that., whenever the Communication is carried on by 
a metallic Medium , the Effects are much the more 
fenftblc, 
Exp. XL 
This Experiment is no other than what has been 
frequently tried in England > the Attraction of Leaf- 
gold by a hollow wooden Globe, to which Elec- 
tricity is communicated, by a Packthread of a very 
great Length fufpending it 5 after it has been con- 
ducted over filken Threads eroding the Chamber at 
feveral Pittances, in a fort of Spiral, confifting of as 
many Turns as the Place will admit. 
I had almoft forgot to take notice of two Particulars* 
which were the Confequences of fome of the preceding 
Experiments, and may in fome meafure ferve to illus- 
trate them: The one regards the Communication of 
Electricity ; the other, its furprifing Force. 
At the grand Convent of the Carthufians here ia 
Taris, the whole Community formed a Line of nine 
hundred Toifes, by means of iron Wires^ofa propor- 
tionable Length, between every twos and, confe- 
quently, far exceeding the Line of the 180 of 
the Guards above-mentioned. The Effect was, that* 
when the two Extremities of this long Line met in 
Contact with the electrified Phial, the whole Com- 
pany, at the fame. Xnftant of Time, gave a hidden 
Spring, and all equally felt the Shock, that was the 
Confequence of the Experiment. 
The 
