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I. Several Electrical Experiments^ made at 
various Times , before the Royal Society, 
by the Rev „ J. T. Defaguliers, LL . 2). 
F. R. S. 
i . An Account offome Experiments made before the 
Royal Society, May the 14th, 1741. 
I Mentioned in one of my former Papers concern- 
ing Eledricity, that Eledrics per fe would not 
receive the Electricity of a rubbed Tube, fo as to 
carry on to a Diftance; but that, if thofe Bodies were 
changed into Non-eledrics, they would then receive 
and convey the Eledricity of the rubbed Tube, in the 
fame manner as all other Conductors of Eledricity do. 
The Experiments which I made to prove this plainly, 
are as follow : 
Experiment I. 
I fufpended a long fmall glafs Tube at about the 
Diftance of 14 or 15 Inches from an horizontal ex- 
tended Cat-gut in the fame Pofition, or parallel to it, 
by Two fmall iilken Threads; and, with a fmall 
Packthread, hung an ivory Ball on the End of the 
fufpended Tube; and, applying the rubbed Tube to 
the other End, (though lightly excited, as appeared 
by its fnapping) no Eledricity was communicated to 
the Ball : Though, when a very fmall Packthread was 
hung from one End of the Tube to the other, the 
ivory Ball became very eledric, as appeared by its 
attrading a Thread hung on a Stick. Then taking off 
the Packthread, and wetting the Tube from one End 
to the other, with a Spunge, it became a Non elec- 
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