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inftantly kill even large Animals by the electrical 
Strokes (h) ? 
66. I cannot conclude thefe Papers, without con 
gratulating that excellent Phiiofopher and learned 
Member of this Society the Abbe Nollet of Taris. 
This Gentleman, almoft two Years fince, in a Let- 
ter to Profeffor Bofe (an Extract of which this laft 
publifhed with a Work (i) of his own) without the 
Knowledge of feveral Experiments fince difcover’d 5 
at lead: none of his Difcoveries nave yet fallen into 
my Hands, did declare his Opinion, (k) that the 
Electricity did not only proceed from the electrified 
Bodies, but from all others about them to a certain 
Difiance j (/) that the Electricity, as well from Bo- 
dies electrified, as from thofe which were not, 
paffed more readily through denfe Mediums than 
Air 5 (m) that the Electricity is prefent in all Bodies 5 
that 
(b) Monf. Le Monnier at Paris killed Birds by thefe ; and 
with me, a Linnet and a Rat, much more than half-grown (the 
largeft I was then able to procure) have been ftruck dead. 
( 7 ) Recloerches fur la Caufe , et fur la veritable Theorie deV Elec- 
tricite. Wittembergue, 1745. 
(/£) Voyez Nollet dans les Recherches , &c. du M. Bofe , Pag. xlv,— 
La matiere ele&rique vient non feulement du corps ele&rife, mais 
aufii de tous ceux qui font autour de lui, jufques a une certaine di* 
fiance. 
Ibid. p. xlix. — Si vous pouvez vous convaincre comme moi, 
que la matiere qui va au corps ele&rique vient primitivement de 
tous le corps environnans, de Pair meme, vous aurez bienplusde 
facilite a expliquer tous les autres effets. 
(/) Ibid. p. xlvi, La matiere ele<firique, tant celle qui fort du corps 
ele&rife, que celle qui vient des environs a ce meme corps, fe 
meut plus facilement dans les corps denfe que dans Pair meme. 
(») Ibid, p. xlvii. 
