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§ VIII. I beg Leave to correct alfo what I mention’d 
in my Sequel , p. 69. in relation to my fuggefting, 
that, in the Explolion of the charged Phial through 
the Body of a Man, or other Non-eledrics, as much 
Eledricity as was taken from his Body, was imme- 
diately replaced by the Floor of the Room upon 
which he (iood: I having fince found, that the charged 
Phial would explode with equal Violence, if the Hook 
of the Wire, which is ufually run through the Cork 
ot the Phial, was bent in fuch a manner as to come 
near the Coating of the Phial, without any other Non- 
eledric being near, from which fuch Quantity could 
be fupplied. 
§ IX. I take notice of thefe, inafmuch as, notwith- 
flanding the very great Progrefs that has been made 
in our Improvements in this Part of Natural Philo- 
fophy within thefe few Years, Poflerity will regard 
us only as in our Noviciate ; and therefore it behoves 
us, as often as we can be jutlificd therein by Expe- 
riment, to correct any Conclufions we may have 
drawn, if others yet more probable prefent them- 
felves. 
§ X. I laid down and conlider’d largely in my 
Sequel *, that the Stroke from the Phial, in the Ex- 
periment of Leyden> was not in Proportion to the 
Quantity of Matter contained in the Glafs, but was 
increafed by the Quantity of Matter in the Glafs, and 
the Number of Points of non-eledrical Conrad on 
the Outfide of the Glafs. This Fad I have purfued 
further, and increafed thereby the eledrical Explo- 
iion 
* See p . 11, 17, 19, 
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