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carry fo much of it along with them, as to make it 
run in a conflant Stream. 
That the Attraction between the Water and elec- 
tric Effluvia is fufficient to produce this EffeCt, 
might be proved by a Variety of Experiments 5 but l 
fhall only obferve, that to this Attraction it is owing 
that filk Lines and glafs Tubes (which, from their 
imbibing fo very fmall a Quantity of thefe Effluvia , 
are generally made ufe of as Supports in many of 
the eleCtrical Experiments) on only being wetted be- 
come ftrong Conductors : And that if an excited 
Tube is held over a Veffel of Water, the Water is 
found to imbibe a very confiderable Quantity of 
this electric Matter 5 and, on the Approach of a 
Finger, or any other non-eleCtric Body, the Water 
will be perceived to rife towards it 5 and if the Fin- 
ger is brought fo near the Surface as to draw off the 
Effluvia , they will carry feveral Particles of the Wa- 
ter along with them towards the Finger, in a Direc- 
tion direCtly contrary to that of Gravity j and there- 
fore may well be fuppofed, when acting in the fame 
Direction, to have an Influence fufficient to produce 
a Stream, as in the Experiment. 
And that this Current of the ele&ric Effluvia is 
the true Caufe why the Water runs in a Stream 
from the End of the Syphon, is farther evident, in 
that whatever tends to increafe or diminifli the Cur- 
rent of the Effluvia , produces the fame EffeCt 
upon the Water. I have already obferved, that 
when the Effluvia are ftrongly excited, they will 
be feen to pals off from the End of the prime Con- 
ductor in luminous Rays; and the fame may be ob- 
ferved with refpeCt to thole which pafs with the 
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