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touching the Wire, though you do not receive a 
Shock, unlefs at the fame time you grafp the Phial. 
23. If you grafp the Phial with your Hand, and 
do not at the fame time touch the Wire, the ac- 
quired Electricity of the Water is not diminiflied. 
So that, unlefs by Accident or otherwife the Wire 
is touched, the electrified Water will contain its 
Force many Hours, may be convey’d feveral Miles, 
and afterwards exert its Force upon touching the 
Wire. 
24. If, when the Machine is in Motion, the Phial 
is hung upon the Gun-barrel, no Increafe of the 
Stroke is perceived upon touching the Gun-barrel 
with your Finger, unlefs at the fame time the Phial 
is taken in the Hand. 
25. If, when the Gun-barrel and Phial are ex- 
cited, you grafp the Phial with one Hand, and touch 
the Gun-barrel with a Piece of any Metal held in 
the other, the Shock is as great in your Arms as 
though you touched the Gun-barrel with your Fin- 
ger 5 but not the lead Shock is felt, if, inftead of 
Metal, you touch the Gnn-barrel with a Piece of 
dry Wood. 
2 6. I have felt a very great Stroke, when I hung 
two Phials to the Gun-barrel, and, grafping them 
both, brought my Forehead near it. The Shock 
then was fo violent, that I feem’d ftunn’d, as though 
firuck on the Head with a great Stick, and I have 
never fince chofe to repeat this Experiment. This 
Increafe of the electrical Force was owing to the 
additional Phial, whereby the Points of non-electric 
Contact were augmented. 
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