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hint, that the Man upon the Ground, who holds 
his Fingers to the Globe in Motion, inftead of his 
diminifhing its eledrical Force, throws that Force 
back again over the Man, who excited it. That the 
Finger in this Cafe feems to operate as an Eledric 
fer fe , and drives back the eledrical Power, 
46. I have feen an Account of * Mr. Allamand> 
lately printed at the Hague 5 wherein he takes no- 
tice of this Thcenomenon . He tells us, that as Part 
of the eledrical Power of the Globe paffes off by the 
Frame, upon which the Globes are mounted, 
into the Floor, and diflipated thereby 5 he con- 
ceived, that if the Machine, and the Man who 
rubb'd the Globe, were placed upon Pitch, to 
prevent this Diffipation, the Fire of Eledricity 
would be more ftrong. But the Confequence is 
extremely odd and unexpeded; for the contrary 
happens 5 and the eledrical Power is confiderably 
diminifhed, and fometimes there is even none at 
all. 
47. I tried this Experiment feveral times with my 
Machine, and the Man, who turns the Wheel 
thereof, mounted upon the eledrical Cakes. If the 
Air was dry, and the Machine placed at fome Di- 
ftance from non-eledrical Subftances, as the Sides of 
the Room, Chairs, and fuch-like 5 after one or two 
final! Snaps, the Gun-barrel, fupported by filk Lines, 
and hanging in- Conrad with the Globes, would, 
tho' the Machine were in Motion a confiderable time 9 
attract 
* Biblifitbeque Britanniqus pour les Mots de Janvier? Fevrier , it 
Mars , 1747. 
