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vibrating in the Diredion of the Gan. The Motion 
of the Plant- and Needle always continued as Iona: 
* lJ 
as the glals Globe was excited, 
I was alfo defirous to be fatisfied, whether Elcc? 
tricity could be propagated without mutual Conrad, 
by lufpending another Gun in Silk Cords, about 
two Inches from Contact, and the Bledricixy was 
near as ftrong in the fecond Gun as in the firft. At 
the Diflance of between 3 and 4 Inches it was 
much abated, and fo it gradually diminifhed, as 
the Dihance increafed to near 6 Inches, where if 
would fcarce attrad a Thread of TriaJ. 
I prevailed on a Man to be let Blood, and then 
placed him on a Cake of Pitch, but could not be 
fenfible of any Increafe of Velocity in his Blood, by 
being cledf zed, as has been aflerted* 
I had almoft forgot to mention* that the Strokes 
I received from the eledrified Garden-Pots were more 
violent and painful to my Fingers than from any 
other Body I ever experienced. 
Mr. Baker , fince his receiving the above Account 
has had an Opportunity of eledrifying a Myrtle- 
tree, of between 2 or 3 Feet in Height, growing 
in a Pot, at the Seat of the Duke of Montague 
at Bitton \ in Prefence of His Grace, of the Breji- 
4 cnt of this Royal Society, and feveral other cu- 
rious Gentlemen j who found, that whenever the 
Hand, or other rion-eledric Body, was brought 
near the Leaves, Streams of fine purple Fire ifllied 
therefrom, together with a confiderably cold Air> 
and that the Leaves would be attraded at fome 
Difiance, and move vigoroufiy towards a non- 
eledric Body. 
CCQ 
VIII . 
