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the electrical Power to be in the mod dired man- 
ner between the Gun-barrel and the electrified Phial. 
3<>. Likewife, if a Perfon, {landing upon an Ori- 
ginally-eleftric, touches the Gun-barrel with his 
right Hand, a Piece of Wire being placed round his 
left Leg, and a fecond Perfon, {landing likewife 
upon the Wax, takes hold of the Extremity of this 
Wire ; then let another Perfon, handing upon the 
Eloor, and grafping the electrified Phial, touch any 
Part of the fecond Perfon s Body. Upon this Touch, 
the fecond Perfon is fhook as ufualj but the firft 
feels the Stroke only in his left Leg and right Arm, 
the neareft Courfe of the electrical Power; 
40. If any Number of Perfons communicate by 
Pieces of Wire, and if any one of them brings to- 
gether the Ends of the two Pieces of Wire in his 
Hands, upon the Gun-barrel's being touch'd, he will 
perceive no Stroke. But if the Ends of the Wires 
are but a Quarter of an Inch afunder, he will be 
fhook in both his Arms; becaufe then his Body 
will become Part of the Circuit. 
41. If, when any Number of Perfons join Hands, 
or communicate by any metallic Medium {landing 
on the Floor, one grafps the Phial, and joins with 
the reft 5 upon the Gun-barrel's being touch'd by 
the laft Perfon of the Line, the whole Number are 
(truck, and he who grafps the Phial, as forcibly as 
the reft. But if two Phials are employed, and he 
grafps them both, with a Piece of Wire of fuffi- 
cient Length held between his Fingers, which Wire 
touches both Phials, and its End is taken hold of 
by the fecond Perfon of the Lines if then the laft 
Perfon touches the excited Gun-barrel, all in the 
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