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difcharged in Drops. Thefe Ebanomena may, from 
what has been already faid under the former Expe- 
riment, be eafily accounted for. 
That the Water is made to run in a Stream, is 
plainly owing to the mutual Attraction between the 
eleCtrifed Body and the Water; which Attraction 
will continue, fo long as the Vcffel which contains 
the Water, by being Supported by a Non -eleCtric, is 
prevented from retaining any of the electrical Ef- 
fluvia ; thefe Effluvia being drawn off by the non- 
electric Body, to which the VdTel is fufpended : But 
on the contrary, when the VdTel is fufpended by 
an Original -EleCtric, the Effluvia , not being at- 
tracted thereby, will be prevented from running off, 
and the Water will foon be found to have imbibed 
a Quantity of them, fufficient, by their repelling 
Property, to greatly weaken, or wholly to dcltroy, 
the former Attraction, when the Water will ceafe 
to run in a Stream, and only drop, as if it had not 
been held near any eleCtrifed Body. Monf. L’ Abbe 
Nolet has endeavoured to account for the former 
Part of this Experiment, by fuppofing there is, what 
he calls, both an affluent and an effluent eleCtric 
Matter j but he takes no notice of the latter Part, 
which is not eafily folved upon his Suppofition. But 
if what I have obferved on thefe Experiments is fa- 
tisfaClory, I apprehend I have accounted for the fe- 
veral Ehtenomena on much more folid Principles, 
and that thereby any lefs certain Hypothefis is ren- 
der’d ufelefs. 
I intended to have taken fome notice of the dif- 
ferent Acceleration of the Fluids thro’ Tubes of dif- 
ferent Bores ; but as this Acceleration will always 
vary 
