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the Gun-barrel fufpended in Elk Lines was touched 
by Non-cledrics. As from divers Experiments I 
had found that Eledricity was not furnifhed by dry 
Air, by many more that it could not come down 
clean filk Lines , and as, from his Snapping, the 
Man upon the Wax argued the Prefence of Elec- 
tricity, I conceived that this could happen no other 
Way, than that the rubbing of the Globe by a Cu- 
fhion or the Hand of a Man, gave it a Fitnefs to 
take off the Eledricity, furnifhed by the fufpended 
Gun-barrel from the Non-eledric upon the Floor, 
and lodge it upon the Machine, and upon the Man 
who turned the Wheel thereof. But the Experi- 
ment of circulating the eledrical Fire *, where the 
Brufh of blue Flame from a blunt Wire properly 
difpofed, can always be feen to pafs diverging into 
the Machine, though not fo, when brought near 
the Gun-barrel under the mod favourable Circum- 
ilances ; as well as the Experiment before-mention’d 
brought to fhew that the Eledricity came from the 
Air, have induced me to change my Opinion 5 and 
inftead of the Courfe of the Eledricity being in- 
verted, the Phenomena arofe, as far as 1 am capa- 
ble of judging, from the Man who turned the Wheel 
of the eledrifying Machine having lefs than his ori- 
ginal Quantity of Eledricity, and the Gun- barrel 
from having more: To thefe add, that the Perfon, 
who touched thefe while handing upon the Floor, 
had a Quantity different from each of thefe, that 
is, his natural Quantity. 
I beg 
* See Sequel § 65. 
