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Royal Society, about Seven Feet from the Floor; 
and to the Middie of that Cat-gut fattened a filken 
Thread about Two Foot long, which hung down, 
and at its lower End had a Down Feather. Then 
rubbing the End of a Stick of Wax pretty quick and 
ftrongly againft my Waittcoat, which was made of 
Cloth, the Wax became electrical, and attracted the 
Feather, which ttuck to it awhile, and then was 
repelled from it, as long as it retained the EleCtricity 
it had received from the Wax: Bur, having touched 
the Feather with my Finger, it loft its Electricity ; and, 
becoming a Non eleCtric, was again attracted by the 
Wax, which gave it frefh EleCbricity ; and then it was 
repelled from it, and fo toties quoties- When the 
Feather was in its eleCtric State, I applied to it another 
Stick of Wax, which I firft rubbed 5 and it repelled 
the Feather, though it had not touched it before, 
and did the fame as the other Stick of Wax had 
done. 
After that I rubbed a glafs T ube, which firft attraCled 
and then repelled the Feather, as the Wax had done: 
And another Tube, being rubbed, repelled the Fea- 
ther, when it was put into an eleCtric State by the firft 
Tube, without firft attracting ir. But Non- eleCtrics, 
fuch as the Finger, or a Stick, attracted the Feather, 
when it had firft been made eleCtric ; and not only 
io, but EleCtrics per fe , when they were become 
non-elcCtric, as the Tube unrubbed, or the Wax 
unrubbed ; nay, the rubbed Tube alfo, when its End 
was moiftened, or that End of it turned to the Fea- 
ther, which had been held in the Hand. 
Then I made the Feather eleCtric, by the Applica- 
tion of the excited Tube ; and, having rubbed the 
Wax 
