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cloudy. Under thefe Difadvantages, on Monday 
Night I attempted again my Experiments 5 they fuc- 
cceded, but with infinitely more Labour than the 
preceding, becaufe of the Unfitnefs of the Evening 
for fuch Trials. Your Candour will not permit you 
to think my Minutenefs trivial, with regard to the 
Circumfiances of the Weather, who know how many 
Things mud concur to make thefe Experiments fuc- 
ceed. I fhall wait with Impatience for a proper 
Opportunity to have thefe Experiments repeated in 
your Prefence j and am, with the utmoft Refped, 
SIR, 
dlderfgat e-Street, March 27. 
1745 . Tour mofl obedient 
Humble Servant, 
W. Watfon, 
IL 
A Letter to the Royal Society, 
Gentlemen, 
Read April 25/y Lately acquainted you, that I had been 
a745 * X able to ^ re Spirit of Wine, Rhlogifion 
of Frobenius , and common proof Spirit, by the 
Power of Eledricity. Since which (till Yefterday) 
we have had but one very dry fine Day 5 viz. Mon- 
day, April 15. Wind E. N. E. j when, about Four 
o' Clock in the Afternoon, I got my Apparatus ready, 
and fired the Spirit of Wine four times from the 
Poker as before, three times from the Finger of a 
Perfon eledrified, ftanding upon a Cake of Wax, 
and 
