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with the late Mr. Stephen Gray-, who had wholly 
turn'd his Thoughts that way 5 but was of a Temper 
to give it intirely over, if he imagin'd, that any thing 
was done in Oppolitioii to hin). But now I intend 
not only to go on myfelf in making eledrical Ex- 
periments, but (hall always be ready to make fuch as 
(hall be propofed by any Member of; the Society^. 
The ^^ries which I have already examin'd, are the 
following: 
G^ery I. Whether all Bodies . in general are not 
capable of receiving the Eleftricity which has been 
given to a Tube by Fri6tion, though there be a great 
many Bodies, fuch as, Metals and Vegetables, in 
which we have not hitherto been able to excite any- 
Ele£tr;city by Heat, or Friction, or any other Opera- 
tion opi, the Bodies themfelves ? 
^^ry Ih Whether when a String is ftretch’d out 
at Length, with a Body hanging at one End of it, 
to whiehjlody we would communicate the Eledricity 
of theThbe/hblp’d; at the other End, the Supporters 
of the , String ought hot to be of fuch Bodies as are 
capable of having Eledricity excited in them by 
Fridion, Heating, Beating, or Patting, or fome imme- 
diate Qperation on the Bodies themfelves f 
.^ei^y. Ilf: .Whether thefe Supporters of the String' 
(rnentiph’d in fihe lad ; which Bops the eledrical 
Virtue^fro^L pafllng any rfarther, .are, not of fuch a 
kjnd as, are incapable off hiving; the dddricali Virtue' 
excited, them immediately . by any. Operation yet 
known ; though they are all capable of receiving it 
frorp a rubb'd Tube, even, at a great Diftance, by the 
Gompvphiciliippi.of a>Stiiing made rof vegetable Sub- 
dances ? * 'i 
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