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X. Tart of a Letter from Abbe Nollet, of 
the Royal Academy a / 7 Sciences at Paris, 
and F. R.S. to Martin Folkes Efq\ Prefi- 
lident of the fame , concerning Electricity. 
Tranjlated from the French, by T. Stack, M. F). 
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Read Feb. 
17+7*8. 
"F 
SIR , 
OR feveral Years paft Electricity has 
been my chief Occupation. Laft 
Summer I read three Memoirs at our weekly Meet- 
ings, which contained many Particulars on this Sub- 
ject : But as thefe were Matters of mere Curiofity, 
and of no real Ufe, they almoft tired out my Pa- 
tience. I now fend you fome Experiments, which 
I made during the Vacation, which feem to pro- 
mife at leaft the being of fome Service ; but of this 
you will be the belt Judge. I will deferibe them in 
the fame Order as I made them, and to which I was 
not led by mere Accident. You know, that when 
a Veflel full of Liquor, which runs out through a 
Pipe, is eleClrified, the electrified Jet or Stream is 
thrown farther than ufual, and is diverged into fe- 
veral divergent Rays, much in the fame manner 
the Water poured out from a watering Pot. 
as 
Every body at firft Sight will judge, that the 
Stream is accelerated, and that the electrified 
Veifel will foon be empty. 1 was unwilling to 
rely on the firft Appearances, and therefore re- 
folved to afeertain the Fact, by meafuring the 
Time, and the Quantity of the Liquor running our. 
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