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* tively ; A , negatively } or, rathef, B is electrifei 
* plus. A, minus. And we daily in oar Experi- 
‘ ments electrife plus or minus, as we think pro- 
c per. To eledrife plus or minus, no more needs 
‘ be known than this; that the Parts of the Tube 
‘ or Sphere that are rubbed, do in the Inftant of 
£ the Friction attract the electrical Fire, and 
* therefore take it from the Thing rubbing. The 
‘ fame Parts immediately, as the Friction upon 
* them ceafes, are difpofed to give the Fire, they 
‘ have received, to any body that has lefs.- Thus 
* you may circulate it, as Mr. JVatfon has fhewn * ; 
1 you may alfo accumulate or fubftrad it upon or 
* from any Body, as you conned that Body with the 
* Rubber, or with the Receiver, the Communi- 
* cation with the common Stock being cut off/ 
The Solution of this Gentleman, in relation to 
this Bhtznomenon , fo exadly correfponds with that 
which I offer'd very early laft Spring, that I could not 
help communicating it. 
§ VII. In Sed. 51. and 62. of my Sequel to^the elec- 
rrical Experiments, which I prefenced to the Royal 
Society laft Year, from not having confidefd this Ex- 
periment in a ftatical View, and from not then ima- 
gining the Velocity of Eledricity fo great as we fince 
have found it, I concluded, that the Snapping obferved, 
if a Perfon Handing upon the Floor touched the Man 
Handing upon W ax, who turned the W heel of the elec- 
trifying Machine placed likewife upon Wax, to be 
owing to the Inverfton of the ufual Courfe of the Elec- 
tricity i as that Snapping was only conftant, when' 
the 
* Set my Sequel, p. 64. 
