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The other Phenomenon was the P.efult of a late Ex- 
periment of Abbe Nollet’s. He fixed, at the two Ex- 
tremities of a brafs Ruler, two fmall Birds, a Sparrow 
and a Chaffinch : This Ruler had a Handle or Pedeftal 
fattened to the Middle of it, for the Convenience of 
holding it. When both the Gun Barrel and the Phial 
had been fufficiently electrified, as in the 4th Expe- 
riment, he applied the Head of the Sparrow to the 
fufpended Phial, and the Head of the Chaffinch to 
the Barrel. The Confequence, upon the firft Trial, 
was, that they were both inftantaneoufly (truck life- 
lefs, as it were, and motionlefs, for a Time only, and 
they recovered fome few Minutes after : but, upon a 
fecond Trial, the Sparrow was (truck dead, and 
upon Examination found livid without, as if killed 
with a Flafh of Lightning, mod of the Blood-velfels 
within the Body being burft by the Shock. The 
Chaffinch revived, as before. 
This is, Sir, the exacted Relation I have been able 
to put together, of a Series of Experiments I have 
been exceedingly furprifed with: And which I fhould 
fooner have tranfmitted to you, had I not been 
obliged to employ fome time in the clearing up (e- 
veral Particulars, and in the fatisfying myfelf about 
fome of the Facts, by repeated Trials, before I would 
venture to give you an Account of them. 
That 
