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Bodies themfelves, fuch as rubbing, warming, <&c. 
But an Eledric per fe , when excited, can commu- 
nicate its Virtue to a Non eledric, and that Virtue 
will be received by all the Parts of the Non-eledric, 
(be the Body ever fo long, or large) and be ftrongeft, 
being, as it were, colleded, at that End of the Non- 
eledric, which is fartheft from the Place where the 
Eledricity is firft received. 
3. A Non-eledric, having received Eledricity, will 
communicate to another Body brought to touch it, 
or only brought pretty near, and that often with a 
fnapping Noife, and a fmall Flafh of Light, lofing by 
that means all its own Eledricity. 
4. An Eledric per fe will become a Non-eledric 
for a time, if it be made wet or moift, and become 
receptive of Eledricity, which it will receive at one 
End, and carry to the other, where the Eledricity 
will go off with a fmall Explofion, to impregnate any 
other Non-eledric, which is brought near. 
5. An Eledric per fe , in which Eledricity has 
been excited, may become Non-eledric by being ex- 
pofed to moift Air, whofe humid Vapours it attrads ; 
and then, brought to the Fire, or into very dry Air, 
recover its Eledricity when the Moifture is exhaled 
again. 
6 * An Eledric per fe may be made ftrongly 
eledric in Part of its Length, whilft the other Part 
remains in a non-eledric State. 
7. A Body in a State of Eledricity (whether a 
Non-eledric having received Eledricity, or an Eledric 
per fe , excited to Eledricity) will attrad all Non- 
eledrics, and repel other Bodies that are in a State of 
Eledricity# provided the Eledricity be of the fame 
kind. N n n n 8. A 
