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and continue to do fo, till the Water is all difcharged, 
provided the Sphere is continued in Motion. 
That Water does not run in a conftant Stream, 
but only in Drops, from a Syphon of a (mail boie, 
is doubtlefs owing to the fame Caufe by which it 
is fuftained above the Level in capillary Tubes. If 
therefore Water is made to run in a Stream barely 
by its being impregnated with the eleflrical Effluvia, 
it fhould follow, that if one or more capillary Tubes 
be placed in a Veflel of Water, that which is fuf- 
tained in them would either fink down to a Level 
with the reft of the Water, on its being made elec- 
trical, or at leaft that it would not continue at the 
fame Height as before j but if the Experiment is 
made, the Water will be found to continue exactly 
at the fame Height, whether it is electrified or not. 
Again, if the bare ele&rifying the Water was the 
Caufe of its running in a Stream, it would continue 
to run in the fame manner, fo long as the Water 
continued eleChical, which it will not do : Foi, on 
flopping the Motion of the Machine, the Stieam 
will immediately ceafe, and the Water will only 
drop from the Syphon, notwithftanding its being 
ftrongly impregnated with the electrical Effluvia. 
To account then for the Water's being made to run 
in a Stream in this Experiment, I would obferve, 
that fo long as the Machine is in Motion, there is 
a conftant Succeftlon of the eleCtric Effluvia ex- 
cited, and which viftbly run off from the End of 
the prime Conductor in a Stream, and as they are 
in like manner carried off from all Bodies hung to 
it, thofe Effluvia which run off from the End of 
the Syphon, being ftrongly attracted by the Water, 
carry 
