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I obferved the fame of two white Silks fufpended upoa 
red Silk, but think they did not move away fo briskly 
as the Black. 
Experiment VI. 
I tried whether Threads hanging parallel, as above, 
from a crofs blue filk Line, and joined with one or 
more tranfverfe Threads, fo that the perpendicular 
Threads remained nearly parallel, would mutually 
repel when the Tube was held over them ; they feemed 
to repel each other full as ftrongly as before. When 
they were joined by only one crols Thread towards the 
Top, the lower Parts feparated confiderably ,• when 
joined by two 'crofs Threads, one towards the Top, 
and one towards the Bottom, they feparated both in 
tile middle Parts between the two crofs Threads, and 
at their lower Ends under the fecond or loweft crofs 
Thread. When feveral were tied together at the Top 
and Bottom, and about a Foot long, not by tranfverfe 
Threads, but in a Knot at each End, they all bellied 
out from one another, defcribing a Figure generated 
by an Ellipfis, revolved about its greater Axis; ap- 
proaching nearer to a Sphere, the ftronger the repul- 
live Force was. And, though it was only a necellary 
Confequence, I could not without fome Pleafure 
obferve the Knot at the Bottom, as the Strings fwelled 
out, fenfibly riling up. I could fcarce forbear ima- 
gining ray Bundle of Silks, a Bundle of mufcular 
Fibres. 
E X P E R I M E N T VIL 
I fufpended two brafs and afterwards two iron 
Wires upon a crofs blue Silk, in the fame manner 
as 
