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in a conftant Stream thro' a capillary Tube or Si- 
phon, or only to drop, as if it had not been elec- 
trified at all: And likewife, that the Water may be 
made to run from the fame Syphon in a conftant 
Stream, without being made eledrical, but ceafe to 
run, and only drop, the Moment it becomes elec- 
trical. Under the one or other of thefc Cafes, I 
fhall have an Opportunity of taking notice ot the 
feveral Varieties obfervable in thefe Experiments $ 
all of which 1 fhall endeavour to account for from 
the following general Principles. 
Eirft, That the feveral eledrical Thxnomena are 
produced by means of Ejfluvia. 
Secondly, That the Particles compoftng thefe Ef- 
fluvia ftrongly repel each other. 
Thirdly, That the faid Particles are ftrongly at- 
traded by moft if not all other Bodies whatfo- 
ever. 
That the eledrical c Phanomena are produced by 
means of Effluvia , is in general acknowledged by . 
all the Authors who have wrote upon Eledricity, 
however they may differ in Opinion with regard to 
the Bodies in which they are contained. The Pro- 
perties I have mention'd of thefe Effluvia may be 
eafily deduced from moft of the Treatifes lately 
publifhed on this Subjed. But to leave no Room 
for any Objedion, I would beg Leave to obferve, 
that the Exiftence of thefe Effluvia, is proved by all 
thofe Experiments in which a Stream of Light is 
feen to iftue from the eledrificd Body ; particularly 
thofe Streams which are feen to iftue in diverging 
Rays from the End of the original Condudor, when 
made of Metal, and reduced to a Point j from 
their 
