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Quodb mora centri 5 in difco fuppo- h ' n 
nitur 4 b. 32'. erit inclinatio orbit® o 7 6 
Si veto cadeni mora eflet 4 h. 34'- 
tunc indmatio orbit® ■ >■«— o 7 5 
4 . 
IX, Obfervatiansupon fo much of Monjieur le 
Monnier the younger s Memoir , lately pre- 
fented to the Royal Society, as relates to 
the communicating the Electric Virtue to 
Kon-eledrics ; by Wm. Watfon, F. R.S 
. Head Jan. 29. ir 
J 746-7. 
HE World is much obliged to Monf, 
le Monnier for the many Difcove- 
ries he has made of the Power of Ejedricity , though 
the Rcafon of my troubling you with this Paper at 
this time, is my differing with that Gentleman in 
the Conclufions which he deduces from fevcral of 
the Experiments contain'd in his Memoir lately pre* 
fented to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Raris> 
his own Extract of which was lately communicated 
to the Royal Society ... * 
One of the jQucftions propofed to be examined is, 
<c In what manner the electric Virtue is to be coni* 
iC municated to fuch Bodies as yet have it not, and 
tc which are not capable of acquiring it by bare 
<c Fridion only r Monflcuf le Monnier obferves 
hereupon, “ That no other Manner is known, by 
“ which the cledric Virtue may be communicated, 
u befides the near Approach of a Body adually pof- 
£c fefs’d of the Tamp: That the. Rule laid down by 
“ Moriiieur 
* See Thefe Tranfadions, No. 481, />. 291, 
