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Stream of Light will come from the End of it, if it 
is pointed; it will attrad, repel, and communicate 
this Virtue to any other non eledric Body : On the 
Approach of a Non-eledric, a Spark of Fire, with 
a a Snap attending it, will come from it; which 
Spark will be greater or lets, as the Bodies approach* 
ing it have more or lefs of the eledrical Quality re- 
fiding in them ; and there will likewife be the fame 
offenfive Smell as was obferved of the Tube. 
From thefe Experiments, which I think contain 
the principal Thanomena of Eledricity, may juftly 
be drawn the following Conclufions : 
ift. That thefe remarkable Thanomena are pro- 
duced by means of Effluvia ; which, in ex- 
citing the eledrical Body, are put into Motion, 
and feparated from it. 
2 dly. That the Particles compofing thefe Effluvia 
ftrongly repel each other. 
3 dly. That there is a mutual Attradion between 
thefe Particles, and all other Bodies whatfo- 
ever. 
That there are Effluvia emitted from the Tube 
when rubbed, and which furround it as an Atmo- 
fphere, is evident, from that offenfive Smell arifing 
from them, from that Senfation on the Hands or 
Face, when the Tube is brought near either of them, 
and from thofe Sparks of Light, on a ftill nearer 
Approach of the Finger to it. 
That the Particles of thefe Effluvia repel each 
other, is proved by the Cork-Balls {Exp. 4.) and 
the Fibres of the Feather {Exp. 5.) repelling each 
other, when impregnated with them; and by the Leaf- 
Gold (in Exp. 2 .) being repelled by the Tube, and 
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