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If thefe Obfervations receive the Countenance of 
this Learned Society , I fhall think myfelf fufficiently 
recompenfedi and am. 
Gentlemen, with the highejl Efieem , 
Tout mo (l obedient humble Servant , 
fore you fome time fmce, relating to Ele&ridty, 
emboldens me to trouble you again upon the fame 
Subject : And I am the more encouraged fo to do, 
as the Progrefs of our Difcoveries therein, both here 
and abroad, has been fo rapid 5 that what, little 
more than a Year ago, we conceived to be the ne 
flus ultra of our Inquiries, is now regarded as mere 
Rudiments. 
2. It were trefpafling too much upon you, tore- 
count the great Number of Experiments I have made * 
for which Reafon I fhall only take notice of fuch as 
are either in themfelves ftriking,, or tend to illuf- 
trate fome Propofition. 
W. Watfon. 
V. A Sequel to the Experiments and Obferva- 
tions tending to illujirate the Nature and 
‘Properties o/Eledlricity • in a Letter to the 
Royal Society from the fame. 
Gentlemen , 
“'HE favourable Reception wherewith 
you honour’d fome Papers I laid be- 
