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their being felt to ftrike againft the Hand like a Biafl: 
of Wind, when it is brought near the Stream, and 
from that offenfive Smell which generally accompa- 
nies thele Experiments, and which is always more 
perceptible, the more flrongly the Sphere is excited. 
That the Particles composing thefe Effluvia repel 
each other, appears from thofe Experiments, in which 
two Bodies, how different foever they may be in 
kind, repel each other when they are fufficiently 
impregnated with thefe Effluvia. As a Feather, by 
the excited Tube 5 the feveral Fibres of the fame 
Feather, or two Cork Balls, which will be found 
flrongly to repel each other, fo long as they retain 
any confiderable Quantity of thefe Effluvia. Which 
Property will always decrcafc, as the Quantity they 
contain diminifhes. 
That thefe Effluvia arc flrongly attracted by moft 
if not all other Bodies, is fo evident from almoft 
all the elcCtrical Experiments, as to make any parti- 
cular Examples of it needlefs here ,* efpecially as I 
fhall have Occafion to take notice of the ftrong At- 
traction between the electrical Effluvia and Water, 
in accounting for thefe Experiments. And the firft, 
I would take notice of, I (hall now proceed to Bate 
as follows. 
Experiment I. 
If a Veffel of Water is hung to the prime Con- 
ductor, having a Syphon in it of fo fmall a Bore 
that the Water will be difeharged from it only in 
Drops, on the Water’s becoming electrical by means 
of the Machine, it will immediately run in a Stream, 
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