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are {hocked; becaufe the Floor between them, tho a 
the Diftance is To fhort, will not conduct the Elec- 
tricity fufficicntly quick. But if thefe two Perfons 
tread upon a Piece of Wire laid between them, they 
each of them feel the electrical Commotion in that 
Arm, which touches the Phial and Hook, and in 
that Foot which treads upon the Wire; the Wire 
here conducting the Electricity quick enough, which 
the dry Fioor would not. The Circuit is here 
formed by the coated Phial, its Hook, fo much of 
the Bodies of thefe two Perfons as formed a curve 
Line between the Wire, the Phial/ and Hook, and 
the Wire between thefe Perfons. If thefe Perfons 
ftand upon, or touch with any Part of their Bodies 
any Non- electrics, which readily conduct Electricity, 
the Circuit is completed, and the Effect is the fame : 
And this is occafion’d by the Ihort Space of Time, 
in which the loaded Phial is difcharged, when any 
Matter of what kind foever readily conducting Elec- 
tricity happens to be between the coated Phial and 
its Hook, and is fo connected as to communicate 
with both upon the Difcharge of the Phial. 
, Monfieur le Monnier the younger at ‘Paris , in an 
Account tranfmitted to the Royal Society , takes 
notice of his feeling the Stroke of the electrified 
Phial along the Water of two of the Bafons of the 
Thuilleries (the Surface of one of which' is about an 
Acre) by means of an iron Chain which lay upon' 
the Ground, and was ftretched round half their Cir- 
cumference. 
Upon thefe Confiderations it was conjectured, as 
no Circuit had as yet been found large enough fo 
to diffipate the electrical Power as not to make it 
G 2 perceptible, 
