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The electrifying Machine was placed in the fame 
Houfe as it was laft Year. We then found ourfelves 
greatly embarrafled by the Wire’s being conducted 
by the Side of the Road, which we were compcll’d to, 
on account of the Space neceflary for the mcafuring 
of Sound : But fo great a Diflance from the Machine 
was not now wanted, though the Circuit through 
the Wire was intended to be at leaft two Miles. We 
had difeover’d by our former Experiments, that the 
only Caution now neceflary was, that the Wires com 
ducted upon dry Sticks fhould not touch the Ground, 
each other, or any Non-Electric in a confiderable 
Degree in any Part of their Length: if they did not 
touch each other, the Returns of the Wire, be they 
ever fo frequent, imported little, as the Wire had 
been found to conduct Electricity fo much better 
than the Sticks. It was therefore thought proper to 
place thefe Sticks in a Field fifty Yards diftant from 
the Machine. The Length of this Field being eleven 
Chains or 72 6 Feet, eight Returns of the Wire from 
the Top to the Bottom of the Field made fomewhat 
more than a Mile, and fixteen Returns more than 
two Miles, the Quantity of Wire intended for the 
Electricity to pafs through to make the Experiment. 
We had found laft Year, * that, upon difebarging 
the electrifed Phial, if two Obfervers made their 
Bodies Part of the Circuit, one of which grafped the 
leaden Coating of the Phial in one Hand, and held 
in his other one Extremity of the conducting Wire j 
and if the other Obferver held the other Extremity 
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