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off fo ponderous a fluid as Water. May we like- 
wife not infer the Elafticity of ele&rical .Ether, 
from the Ingrefs of the blue Flame from the End 
of a blunt Wire held near the Axis of the Wheel, 
or any Part of the Wood-work of the Machine, 
after the Revolutions of the Globes are ceafed ? 
Certainly we fee an Influx of electrical Fire to all 
Bodies, until their determined Quantity is reftored. 
Is not the Elafticity of this .Ether deducible like- 
wife from the violent Shock' we feel in our Bodies 
in the Experiments with Water? 
57. There feems to be a Quantity of this Ether 
in all Bodies. Hence the Reafon why, though the 
Machine is placed upon EleCtrics per fe , a Snap or 
two, as I mention'd before, is obferv'd upon touch- 
ing the Gun-barrel, when the Machine has been 
fome time in Motion : But after thefe no more is 
perceiv'd, if the filk Lines are very dry, and the 
eleftrical Supporters of the Machine are of a requi- 
fite Thicknefs. As foon as any Non-eleCtric unex- 
cited touches the Machine, this Lofs is immediately 
reftored. As the ele&rical Ether, as has been fpe- 
cified, is an elaftic Fluid, wherever there is an Ac- 
cumulation thereof, there is an Endeavour by the 
neareft unexcited Non-eledric to reftore thx (^/Equi- 
librium. The reftoring of this o - Equilibrium I take 
to be the Caufe of the Attraction of excited glafs 
Tubes and Globes, as well as that of excited Non- 
eleCtrics; for here the Blaft of eleCtrical Ether con- 
ftantly fets in from the neareft unexcited Non-elec- 
trics towards thofe excited, and carries with it what- 
ever light Bodies lie in its Courfe. This fetting in 
of 
