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Xv An Account of feme Ele< 5 lfical Experiments 
made at his Royal Highness the 
Fringe (/Walrs^s Houfe at Cliefden, 
Fuefday^ 1 5 April 1738'. fisihere 
the Eledtricky ^as conveyed 426 Feet m a 
dire fi Line, By the Saine. 
H AV I N G heard that Eledricity had been carried 
along, ah hempen. String five or: fix hundredi . 
Foot rong, but having only fce‘n it when the String 
was carried backwards and forwards in a Room by 
Silk Supporters j I was willing; to try it with a Rack- 
thread String ftretch’d out at full Length? for which 
PUrpofe having join’d a dat-gut String' of fix Foot 
long,-! faftedd it to the Ihfide of a Door in the 
Suite of Rooms' at Criifden \ and having alfo tied 
another Car- gut, like the;firft, to the other^End of 
the String, I tied it up to the Infide' of the Dbor at 
the other End of the Houfe 5 but af the Place where 
the Packthread was joiti’d to the Cat-gut, ! left a 
Foot and an half of Packthread hanging down, and 
faften’d to it a Lignum Vit£ Handle of a Burning- 
Glafs'. Then applying a rubb’d' Tube at the other 
End of the String, I made the Eledricity run to the 
Lignum Vita^ but with fome Difficulty, which I 
attributed to the Size, being an animal Subftance 
that ftill ftuck to the Packthread as it was new ; 
therefore I caus’d the Packthread to be wet with a 
Sponge from one End to the other, to waffi off the 
Size: Then was the Eledricity from the Tube com- 
municated very foon and very ftrongly j for the 
D d a Thread 
