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tin Lied in a State of Repulfioii j but if I only touched 
the communicating Packthread with my Finger, the 
white Thread immediately haftened to the Tube: 
And upon hanging another long Piece of Packthread, 
which reached the Ground, to the communicating 
Packthread, and again rubbing the Tube, the pen- 
dulous white Thread was fo far from going into a 
State of Repulfion, that it became attraded to the 
Tube, and continued fo, without {hewing the leaft 
Tendency to a State of Repulfion, as long as the 
Virtue of the Tube lafted. 
Experiment II. 
I tied a Piece of fmall Cane about lixteen Inches 
long, and one fourth of an Inch Diameter at one 
End, and a little more at the other, at right Angles to 
the Top of my Tube, fixed in the fame Pedeftal as 
before, and making unequal Arms with it 5 and at 
the End of the larger Arm, a Piece of Stick traverfiy, 
about fix Inches long, fo as it might Aide backwards 
and forwards to and from the Tube : This moveable 
fhort Stick at one End fupported a very fine white 
Thread, at the other a very fine blue Silk, by which 
means we had now a Silk and a Thread at the fame 
time hanging parallel to the Tube. The Thread, 
after the Tube was rubbed, firft was attraded, but 
then immediately repelled, and continued a confi- 
fiderable time in a State of Repulfion; but upon 
tying to the End of the fhorter Arm of Cane, a Piece 
of long Packthread, which reached down upon the 
Table, and rubbing the Tube again, the Thread 
continued in a State of Attradion, without being 
once repelled during the whole Virtue of the Tube, 
as 
