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34. If any Number of People (land upon Origi- 
nally-electrics, and communicate with each other by 
any non-electric Medium, efpecially Metal, they 
are by thefe means all equally electrified ; and if a 
Perfon handing upon the Floor, and holding the 
Phial of Water hanging to the Gun-barrel in his 
Hand, touches the Perfon furtheft from the Gun- 
barrel, the whole Number receives a Shock equal to 
any one touching the Gun-barrel fingly. 
3 5*. If a Number of Perfons, how great foever, 
hand upon the Ground, communicating with each 
other as before, the firft of which grafps the Phial, 
and the laft touches the Gun-barrel, the whole Num- 
ber receive a Shock like the former. This, we are 
inform’d, M. le Monnier at *Paris communicated 
through a Line of Men, and other Non-electrics, 
meafuring nine hundred Toifes. 
36. Several Experiments {hew, that the electrical 
Force always defcribes a Circuit j e* g. if a Man 
holds the electrified Phial in one Hand, and touches 
the Gun-barrel with the other, he feels the Shock 
in no other Parts of his Body than in his Arms, and 
acrofs his Bread. So that here we fee the electrical 
Power darts refrtijjimo curfu between the Gun-barrel 
and Phial. This is more particularly demonftrated 
by the following Experiment, in which, though the 
two Lines of Perfons may be of any Length, we 
only fpecify, that each confifts of four, for the fake 
of Perfpicuity. 
37. Of one Line, let A f fee Tab. III.) touch the 
Gun-barrel, (landing upon Wax, and communicate 
with BC'D likewife (landing upon Wax. Of the 
other Line, let 1 take the electrified Phial in his 
Hand, 
