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2. Some further Inquiries into the Nature 
and properties of Electricity ; by William 
Watfon R R. S. 
Read Jan. 21. § I. PRESENTED to the Royal So - 
I747 ' 8 * ciety OEiober 29. lah a Paper 
containing fome Accounts of what had been done 
by fome Gentlemen of the Society , in order to ex- 
amine, not only to what Diftance the electrical 
Power was perceptible, but alfo to invehigate, as 
near as might be, the refpective Velocities of Elec- 
tricity and Sound : Electricity indeed is the Sub- 
ject of the prefent Paper, yet, as it relates to Phe- 
nomena thereof different from thofe mention'd in 
the former, I thought proper to feparate them. 
§ II. I took notice, in my Sequel to the Expe- 
riments relating to Electricity *, of an Obfervation 
of the ingenious Profeffor Boje of Wittember viz. 
6 that if the electrifying Machine is placed upon 
* Originally-Electrics, the Man who rubs the Globe 
* with his Hands, even under thefe apparently favour- 
* able Circumftances, gives no Sign of being elec- 
1 trifed when touched by an unexcited Non-electric. 
1 But if another Perfon, handing upon the Floor, 
c does but touch the Globe in Motion with the End 
c of one of his Fingers, or any other Non-electric, 
‘ the Perfon rubbing is inhantly electrifed, and that 
c very hrongly/ This Experiment, almoh a Year 
fince, Dr. Bevis carried further, by placing what- 
ever 
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