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111 examining the third Queftion, the apparatus 
was in all other RefpeCts the fame as in the laft ; 
except that the Obfcrver upon the Weftminfter Shore 
had a Pail of Water placed upon a wooden Table, 
which flood upon the Stone Steps, and into which 
he was to put his right Hand upon the Signal’s be- 
ing given. This was accordingly done, and the 
electrified Phial being difcharged three times, the 
eledrical Commotion was felt as before by the Ob- 
ferver upon the Surry Shore s but not in the lead 
by him on the Weftminfter Side, who held his 
Hand in the Pail of Water. 
In all thefe Experiments, except in one before- 
mention’d, where the iron Rod was not in the Wa- 
ter, it was found, that whether the Obfervers on 
the Weftminfter Shore, upon the Difcharge of the 
electrified Phial, did or did not feel its EffcCts, they 
were always perceiv’d not only in the Arms of 
thofe upon the Surry Shore, who formed a Line 
between the Extremity of the Wire there, and the 
Water of the River ,* but by any other Perfon, who 
flanding upon the Stone Steps, even where they 
were not wet, touched the Wire with his Hand. 
They were likewife felt by a Perfon upon the Weft- 
minfter Shore, flanding upon the wet Stone Steps, 
who did not form Part of the Line between the Extre- 
mity of the conducting Wire and the Water, other- 
wife than by touching the Wire with his Fingers. 
As was before -mention’d, the Obfervers upon the 
Weftminfter Shore did -not feel the EfFeCts of the 
difcharged Phial near fo ftrong as thofe on that of 
Surry in the firft Set of thefe Experiments. When 
a Line was there form’d by the joining Hands of 
two or more Perfons, the firft of which, on account . 
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