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electrified Man, gives no Signs of being made elec- 
trical : If it is well foak’d in Water, where-ever it 
is touch’d, you both fee and feel the cleCtrical Sparks. 
Not only fo, but, If it is fo full of Water that it falls 
from the Sponge, thofe Drops in a dark Room, re- 
ceiv’d upon your Hand, not only flafh and fnap, but 
you perceive a pricking Pain. If you hold your Hand, 
or any non -electrical Subftances, very near, the Wa- 
ter, which had ceafed dropping when the Sponge 
was not electrified, drops again upon its being elec- 
trified ; and the Drops fall in Proportion to the re- 
ceiv’d Electricity, as though the Sponge were gently 
fqueez’d between your Fingers. I was defirous to 
.know if I was able to eleCtrify a Drop of cold Wa- 
ter, dropping from the Sponge, enough to fire the 
Spirit 5 but, after many unfuccefsful Trials, I was 
forced to defift; becaufe the cold Water dropping 
from the Sponge not only cool’d the Spirit too much, 
but alfo render’d it too weak : Likewife every Drop 
carried with it great Part of the Electricity from the 
Sponge. 
I then confider’d, in what manner I could give a 
Tenacity to the Water fufficient to make the Drops 
hang a confiderable Time; and this I brought about 
by making a Mucilage of the Seeds of Fleawort. 
A wet Sponge then, fqueez’d hard, and fill’d with this 
cold Mucilage, was held in the Hand of an electri- 
fied Man, when the Drops, forced out by the Elec- 
tricity) affifted by the Tenacity of the Liquor, hung 
fome Inches from the Sponge; and, by a Drop of 
this, I fired not only the Spirit of Wine, but like- 
wife the inflammable Air before-mentioned, both 
with and without the Explofion. What an extra- 
ordinary 
