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P .676. [All folid Bodies are obferved to contract 
with Cold I have found that Wood does not contrad 
or dilate lengthways with Heat or Cold. I am told 
that Mr. George Graham [is about making] this 
Experiment, as I am alfo, in order to regulate Ben- 
duiums. 
P. 682. I fear that Boerhaaves wet Linen, which 
is fo thin, may begin to freeze before ail the Mer- 
cury or Spirit of Wine in the Ball of the Thermo- 
meter has the fame Degree of Cold: Tho' hanging 
there long before and after freezing will bring it 
pretty near. 
P. 683. [A Rod of Iron 3 Feet long will have 
about ~ Inch Increafe ] or Part. 
IV. A Continuation of a Taper concerning 
Electricity, by William Watfon F. R. & 
printed in thefe Tranf. N. 477, Article I. 
ending p. 501. 
Head Feb. 6 ' A S Water is a Non-eledric, and of 
jLjL confequence a Conductor of Eledri- 
city, I had Reafon to believe that. Ice was endowed 
with the fame Properties. Upon making the Expe- 
riment, I found my Conjedures not without Foun- 
dation ; for, upon eledrifying a Piece of Ice, when- 
ever the ice was touched by a Non-eledric, it 
flafhed and fnapped. A Piece of Ice alfo held in 
the Hand of an eledrified Man, as in the before- 
mentioned Procefles, fired warm Spirit, chemical 
vegetable Oils, Camphor, and Gunpowder prepared 
as before. But here great Care muft be taken, that, 
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