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And in order to know if the Acceleration, fuppo- 
fins; there was any, was uniform, during the whole 
Time of the running out, I made ufe of Vefiels of 
different Capacities, terminating in Pipes of differ- 
ent Bores, from three Lines Diameter to the lmallcfr 
Capillaries : And I give you in grofs the Refult of 
upwards of an hundred Experiments, as it is not fo 
eafy a Task to draw a fafe Conclufion, as may at 
firft be imagined. 
1. The electrified Stream, tho’ it divides, and carries 
the Liquid farther, is neither accelerated nor re- 
tarded fenfibly, when the Pipe, thro which it if- 
fues, is not lefs than a Line in Diameter. 
2. Under this Diameter, if the Tube is wide enough 
f . to let the Liquid run in a continued Stream; the 
Electricity accelerates it a little, but lefs than a 
Perfon would believe, if he judged by the Num- 
ber of Jets that are formed, and by the Diftance 
to which it fhoots. 
3. If the Tube is a capillary one, from which the 
Water ought naturally to flow, but only Drop by 
Drop, the electrified Jet not only becomes conti- 
nued and divided into feveral, but is alfo confi- 
• derabiy accelerated ; and the fmaller the capillary 
Tube is, the greater in proportion is this Accele- 
ration. 
4. And fo great is the EiPed of the ele&rical Vir- 
tue, that it drives the Liquid out of a very fmall 
capillary Tube, thro which it had not before the 
Force to pafs, and enables it to run out in Cafes, 
where there would not otherwife have been any 
Difcharge. 
Thcfe 
